Citation

Rojahn J, Bienstein P. Z. Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2007; 35(6): 411-422.

Vernacular Title

Selbstverletzendes Verhalten bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit intellektueller

Affiliation

Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Development, George Mason University, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Verlag Hans Huber)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18357971

Abstract

10% of the children and teenagers with intellectual disability develop self-injurious behavior during lifespan. The causes for this are investigated, often various and reach from learn-theoretical up to neurobiological conditions. The available work gives overview of the current state of research to the etiology, further factors of influence as well as the process of self-injurious behavior by intellectual disability. Beyond that current diagnostics procedures, standard of treatment of the last thirty years and their effectiveness are presented and discussed finally.

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