Identifying the Risk of Deliberate Self-Harm among Young Prisoners by Means of Coping Typologies
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| Title: | Identifying the Risk of Deliberate Self-Harm among Young Prisoners by Means of Coping Typologies |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Kirchner, Teresa, Forns, Maria, Mohino, Susana |
| Source: | Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Aug 2008 38(4):442-448. |
| Availability: | Guilford Press. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. Tel: 800-365-7006; Tel: 212-431-9800; Fax: 212-966-6708; e-mail: info@guilford.com; Web site: http://www.guilford.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Coping, Self Destructive Behavior, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Classification, At Risk Persons, Youth, Young Adults |
| DOI: | 10.1521/suli.2008.38.4.442 |
| ISSN: | 0363-0234 |
| Abstract: | Self-harming behavior during incarceration has been a topic of increasing attention in recent years. Some authors attribute these episodes to the high level of stress that imprisonment generates coupled with a low quality of coping strategies employed by inmates. The main aim of this study was to identify, by means of coping typologies, prisoners at higher risk of self-harming behavior. The results highlighted the fact that coping typologies permitted the classification of inmates into four groups and the identification of those at lower and higher risk of self-harming. The group at greater risk was the one that used more avoidance and less approach coping. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Accession Number: | EJ809496 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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