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Self‐injurious behaviour in people with intellectual disability
Author(s) -
Symons Frank J.,
Devine Darragh P.,
Oliver Chris
Publication year - 2012
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.1365-2788.2012.01553.x
Subject(s) - carr , psychology , autism , intellectual disability , autism spectrum disorder , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , ecology , biology
Self-injurious behaviour occurs in between 4 and 10% of those who have intellectual disability. An emerging literature demonstrates comorbidity between self-injury and stereotyped and compulsive behaviours and some genetically determined syndromes. Although there is evidence for the efficacy of both psychopharmacology and applied behaviour analytic approaches these are rarely combined in research strategies or intervention studies.