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More women commit suicide and self-harm in prison than men [medicalxpress.com]

 

Female prisoners - often anguished at being parted from their children - are more likely to commit acts of self-harm than their male counterparts. A University of Huddersfield researcher has been researching the issue for more than a decade and is now co-author of an award-winning book that sets out strategies to tackle the problem.

Dr Tammi Walker, who has joined the University as Reader in Forensic Psychology, wrote Preventing Self-Injury and Suicide in Women's Prisons alongside her collaborator Professor Graham Towl, of Durham University. In the latest British Psychological Society Book Awards, it has been named as winner of the Practitioner Text category 2017.

A reviewer describes it as "fascinating, easy to read and carefully structured, making it accessible to psychological practitioners at every stage of training".

[For more on this study by University of Huddersfield, go to https://medicalxpress.com/news...elf-harm-prison.html]

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