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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC INVESTIGATIONS INTO A GROUP OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED SUBJECTS WITH SELF‐INJURIOUS BEHAVIOUR
Author(s) -
MATIN M. A.,
RUNDLE A. T.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1980.tb00060.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , psychology , intervention (counseling) , clinical psychology
Seventeen mentally handicapped patients with SIB (head banger) group are compared with a non-SIB group of similar grade and their behavioural and psychiatric ratings described. The recognition of a specific syndrome in SIB group is demonstrated and shown to lead to serious psychiatric disturbances. The importance of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment intervention among such a group is described.