Intellectual Disability
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Exclude, if the patient’s behavior is related to a profound intellectual disability.
For example,
- The person has no conscious awareness that he/she is self-harming.
This would apply only to patients with severe intellectual disability. Patients with milder intellectual disabilities can and do consciously self-harm.
If the disability is clearly severe and the person is not aware of the self-harm behavior, then it is not a case of intentional self-harm.
Action = Exclude
| Vignette Example – Intellectual Disability
Admission Notes: 28-year-old man with head injury. Profoundly autistic, accompanied by carer who explains he has a pattern of head-banging. Behaviour: Non-communicative. No eye contact. Rocking back and forth and reluctant to allow head examination. |