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[Self-injurious-behavior in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities]

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.