Repp A C, Singh N N, Olinger E, Olson D R
Educational Research and Services Center, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.
J Ment Defic Res. 1990 Apr;34 ( Pt 2):95-105. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01521.x.
Self-injurious behaviour (SIB) is a relatively common phenomenon among severely retarded persons and involves various repetitious behaviours resulting in tissue damage. Perhaps because of the damage it does, the behaviour has generated a considerable amount of applied research and discussion, and much of this research has involved attempts to reduce SIB through the manipulation of antecedents or consequences. The purpose of this paper was to determine the extent to which those conducting this research used a functional analysis of SIB to determine why the behaviour was occurring and subsequently matched treatment to one of these reasons. Results showed that only a small proportion of the studies reported analyses that would allow the experimenter to determine reasons for the self-injurious behaviour. The discussion centres on why functional analyses are not conducted in ways that would lend treatment to be based on hypotheses of why SIB occurs.
自我伤害行为（SIB）在重度智障人群中是一种相对常见的现象，涉及各种导致组织损伤的重复行为。也许是因为它造成的损害，这种行为引发了大量的应用研究和讨论，并且其中许多研究都涉及通过操纵行为的前因或后果来减少自我伤害行为的尝试。本文的目的是确定进行这项研究的人员在多大程度上使用自我伤害行为的功能分析来确定该行为发生的原因，并随后将治疗方法与其中一个原因相匹配。结果表明，只有一小部分研究报告了能够让实验者确定自我伤害行为原因的分析。讨论集中在为什么功能分析没有以能够使治疗基于自我伤害行为发生原因的假设的方式进行。
