Re-framing the Problem of Workplace Violence Directed Towards Nurses in Mental Health Services in the UK: a Work in Progress

Brodie Paterson, David Leadbetter, Gail Miller and Vaughan Bowie
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Brodie Paterson: Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Scotland, b.a.paterson@stir.ac.uk
David Leadbetter: CALM Training Services, Menstrie, Scotland
Gail Miller: Violence Reduction, West London and Broadmoor NHS Trust, England
Vaughan Bowie: Social Justice Social Change Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2010, vol. 56, issue 3, 310-320

Abstract: Background: Research consistently suggests nurses working in mental health settings are more likely to be assaulted than nurses in other settings. Aims: Belated recognition of the issue in terms of social policy (Elston et al . 2006) has been accompanied by an as yet unexamined contest between confl icting ‘frames’ of the problem, which this paper seeks to make transparent. Method: Frame analysis. Results: Two distinct ‘master’ frames are discussed: the ‘individualizing’ and the ‘co-creationist’. Conclusions: The influence of these frames has influenced the nature of responses to the problem but the recent dominance of the individualizing frame is being challenged by the emergence, or perhaps re-emergence, of co-creationism.

Keywords: psychiatry; aggression; prevention; policy; framing; discourse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764008099692

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