Stereotypic Movement Disorder
The child's motor behavior seems driven, repetitive and nonfunctional. Examples include biting or hitting self, body rocking, hand shaking or waving, head banging, mouthing of objects, picking at skin or body openings.
This behavior seriously interferes with normal activities or causes physical injury that requires medical treatment. Main characteristics are:
If the patient also has Mental Retardation, the stereotypic behavior is serious enough to be a focus of treatment. The behavior is not better explained by a compulsion (as in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), a tic (Tic Disorder), hair pulling (Trichotillomania) or a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
It is not directly caused by a general medical condition or the effects of substance use.
The behavior has persisted for at least 4 weeks.
Specify if With Self-Injurious Behavior. The behavior causes bodily injury that requires medical treatment (or would, if the child were not interfered with).
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