title: Community Psychiatric Nursing Pollock LC Scutari 244pp £13.75 1-781364-18-3.
abstract: Community Psychiatric Nursing: Myth and Reality by Linda Pollock is a very wellcome addition to the subject's body of literature. It is a study based on the evaluation of two community psychiatric nursing (CPN) services, firstly 'to provide qualitative information about the process of community nursing' and secondly in relation to the patients' and families response to this service to provide outcome information'.