title: Family therapy: exploring the role of the CPN.
abstract: This article discusses the extent to which community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) practise family therapy. The author, after offering definitions of family therapy and discussing some of the models of the approach, suggests that although many CPNs will be conversant in the theory, only a minority feel confident to use in practice what is increasingly being seen as a specialisation in its own right.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gillam
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing