The role of the CPN with clients who deliberately harm themselves - Chris Atha; A role for the CPN in supporting the carer of clients with dementia - Liz Matthew; Family burden - what does psychiatric illness mean to the carers? - Sue Simmons; Client satisfaction with community psychiatric nursing - Rachel Munton; Data coding - John Mangan and Maura Hunt; The goals and objectives of community psychiatric nursing - Linda Pollock; Evaluation of community psychiatric nursing in general practice - Jan Illing, C Drinkwater, F Rogerson, D Forster and P Rutherford; Out-of-hours work by community psychiatric nurses - Helen Lee; Psychiatrists' influence on the development of community psychiatric nursing services - Edward White; The training needs of CPNs in relation to work with schizophrenic clients - P Wolsey; A six-year follow up study of nurses attending a course in community psychiatric nursing - Charlie Brooker; The historical development of the educational preparation of community psychiatric nurses - Edward White.