title: Re-framing the problem of workplace violence directed towards nurses in mental health services in the UK: a work in progress.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Research consistently suggests nurses working in mental health settings are more likely to be assaulted than nurses in other settings.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Belated recognition of the issue in terms of social policy (Elston et al. 2006) has been accompanied by an as yet unexamined contest between conflicting 'frames' of the problem, which this paper seeks to make transparent.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Scotland. b.a.paterson@stir.ac.uk
authors.forename: Brodie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paterson
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leadbetter
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Vaughan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bowie
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009726:Nurses; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D016134:Organizational Policy; D006113:United Kingdom; D014754:Violence; D017132:Workplace