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.
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Correspondence to Chris Oliver, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; e-mail: C.Oliver@Bham.ac.uk
Abbreviations HPRT: hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase SIB: self-injurious behaviour
