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Physical Conditions and Challenging Behaviour in People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review
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de Winter, C. F.; Jansen, A. A. C.; Evenhuis, H. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: Challenging behaviour is a major problem among people with intellectual disabilities. Physical factors may be an important cause. The aim of the present systematic review was to determine the physical conditions associated with challenging behaviour. Methods: A literature search was conducted in PubMed and the Cochrane systematic…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Behavior Problems, Physical Disabilities, Epilepsy
Atypical Antipsychotic Medication Improves Aggression, but Not Self-Injurious Behaviour, in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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Ruedrich, S. L.; Swales, T. P.; Rossvanes, C.; Diana, L.; Arkadiev, V.; Lim, K. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Objective: Atypical antipsychotic medications have largely supplanted their typical counterparts, both for psychosis and for the treatment of aggression and/or self-injurious behaviour (SIB), in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). However, with the exception of risperidone, little systematic research supports their use in such persons.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Psychosis, Injuries, Drug Therapy
Annotation: Early Intervention and Prevention of Self-Injurious Behaviour Exhibited by Young Children with Developmental Disabilities
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Richman, D. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
The ontogeny of self-injurious behaviour exhibited by young children with developmental delays or disabilities is due to a complex interaction between neurobiological and environmental variables. In this manuscript, the literature on emerging self-injury in the developmental disability population is reviewed with a focus on an operant conceptual…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Prevention, Developmental Disabilities, Young Children
The Association Between Environmental Events and Self-Injurious Behaviour in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
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Moss, J.; Oliver, C.; Hall, S.; Arron, K.; Sloneem, J.; Petty, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
There has been limited empirical research into the environmental causes of self-injury in Cornelia de Lange syndrome. The present study examined the variability of self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange syndrome across environmental setting events. Additionally, the association between setting events and more specific environmental events…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Children, Foreign Countries, Congenital Impairments