Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 2, 2026

Implementation of a Real-Time Psychosis Risk Detection and Alerting System Based on Electronic Health Records using CogStack
Published on: May 15, 2020
Identifying the risk of deliberate self-harm among young prisoners by means of coping typologies
Teresa Kirchner1, Maria Forns, Susana Mohíno
1Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain. tkirchner@ub.edu
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.
Related Concept Videos
Self-Presentation: Self-Monitoring and Self-Handicapping
Coping Strategies: Problem Focused
For example, consider a student who struggles to understand their...
Coping Strategies: Emotion Focused
Protecting Self-Esteem
Self-Discrepancy Theory
Modeling in Therapy
Participant Modeling
Participant modeling involves therapists demonstrating calm and effective behaviors in situations...