self-injurious behaviour

A resident with severe self-injurious behaviour had injured himself 17 times in a six month period.

A review of the literature on self-injurious behaviour amongst prisoners.

There was a 'high prevalence of self-injurious behaviour' among children in custody, it said.

Older children with self-injurious behaviour can seriously damage their eyeballs.

A recent study found that among patients with eating disorders there is a more than 30% lifetime risk of self-injurious behaviour.

Certainly using segregation for those inmates who have carried out self-injurious behaviour is not recommended.

Psychological interventions in self-injurious behaviour: Working with people with a learning disability.

Deliberate Self-harm: self-injurious behaviour within a correctional mental health population.

Self-injurious behaviour can never be a healthy way to manage what are clearly big emotional and psychological issues stemming from early childhood.

Especially during times of stress, self-injurious behaviour, mainly slashing, is very prevalent amongst women in prison.

Report on self-injurious behaviour in the Kingston Penitentiary for Women.

Massage for very severe self-injurious behaviour in a girl with Cornelia de Lange syndrome.

Whilst the rate had since declined, this was due to many attempts being recategorised as "manipulative self-injurious behaviour", with 40 such incidents in six months.

Self-injurious behaviour and aggression are striking characteristics of the syndrome, and may include screaming, tantrums, biting and hitting self or others.

In the case of women in prison, this often results in women resorting to self-injurious behaviour in an effort to deal with a dehumanizing situation.

Descriptive analysis of self-injurious behaviour and self-restraint, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.

For instance, the rating of adult histories of abuse, self-injurious behaviour and suicide attempts as risk factors for violent re-offending have serious implications for women prisoners.

Individuals with SLOS usually exhibit behavioral difficulties with increased activity, attention deficits, aggressive outbursts, temper tantrums, and self-injurious behaviour.

In addition, Blanchette and other Correctional Service of Canada researchers have linked women's histories of self-injurious behaviour and suicide attempts to violent recidivism.

Overactivity, irritability, agitation, tantrums, aggression, self-injurious behaviour (distressed by input or occurrences most children can tolerate such as intrusions, activity interruptions, proximity, confinement, performance demands)

Outside of corrections' research, there is no valid or reliable evidence to substantiate claims that there is a causal relationship between self-injurious behaviour and suicide attempts and violent offending.

School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (England) Research into self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS).

Many disturbed and distressed children respond to this environment within a very short time, though a small minority can present a major ongoing challenge with severely disrupted sleep patterns and aggressive or self-injurious behaviour.

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) can be very successful for those individuals exhibiting a personality disorder, and could potentially be used for those with other mental illnesses who exhibit self-injurious behaviour.

Examples of the behaviours are aggressive outbursts such as screaming, biting or hitting self or others, head banging or other self-injurious behaviour, causing damage to property and possessions, and inappropriate sexual behaviours.