TY - JOUR
T1 - Classification of self-injurious behaviour across the continuum of relative environmental–biological influence
AU - Hagopian, L. P.
AU - Frank-Crawford, M. A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript preparation was supported by grants R01 HD076653 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and U54 HD079123 from the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centres (IDDRC). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NICHD or IDDRCs. The authors would like to thank Meagan K. Gregory and Griffin W. Rooker for their assistance with this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 MENCAP and International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Self-injurious behaviour (SIB) is generally considered to be the product of interactions between dysfunction stemming from the primary developmental disability and experiences that occasion and reinforce SIB. As a result of these complex interactions, SIB presents as a heterogeneous problem. Recent research delineating subtypes of SIB that are nonsocially mediated, including one that is amenable to change and one that is highly invariant, enables classification of SIB across a broader continuum of relative environmental–biological influence. Directly examining how the functional classes of SIB differ has the potential to structure research, will improve our understanding this problem, and lead to more targeted behavioural and pharmacological interventions. Recognising that SIB is not a single entity but is composed of distinct functional classes would better align research with conceptual models that view SIB as the product of interactions between environmental and biological variables.
AB - Self-injurious behaviour (SIB) is generally considered to be the product of interactions between dysfunction stemming from the primary developmental disability and experiences that occasion and reinforce SIB. As a result of these complex interactions, SIB presents as a heterogeneous problem. Recent research delineating subtypes of SIB that are nonsocially mediated, including one that is amenable to change and one that is highly invariant, enables classification of SIB across a broader continuum of relative environmental–biological influence. Directly examining how the functional classes of SIB differ has the potential to structure research, will improve our understanding this problem, and lead to more targeted behavioural and pharmacological interventions. Recognising that SIB is not a single entity but is composed of distinct functional classes would better align research with conceptual models that view SIB as the product of interactions between environmental and biological variables.
KW - automatic reinforcement
KW - biological variables
KW - environmental variables
KW - self-injurious behaviour
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U2 - 10.1111/jir.12430
DO - 10.1111/jir.12430
M3 - Article
C2 - 29027294
AN - SCOPUS:85031416580
VL - 62
SP - 1108
EP - 1113
JO - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
JF - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
SN - 0964-2633
IS - 12
ER -