Studying the historical factors that influence the psychological well-being of people deprived of liberty makes it possible to understand how lived experiences shape their thoughts and behaviors in monitoring their mental health care, responding to the challenges they must face in prison.In this project, two questionnaires were applied, one for the Evaluation of Historical Risk Factors and the other for Psychological Well-being (BP), in order to determine the relationship between psychological well-being and historical factors in a sample of People Deprived of Liberty (PDL) of the Barranquilla Medium Security Prison (BMSP).The results obtained showed a positive correlation of BP with historical factors such as commitment to training, parental modeling, prosocial actions, resilient personality, parental supervision and control, social and personal support, problem solving, empathy and emotional conflict.The negative correlation occurred with factors such as psychological and family violence, physical violence, negative attitudes, anger, self-harm, stress and adaptation, consumption of alcoholic beverages, victim of physical violence

Why positive psychology is necessary.