Training emotion recognition in individuals with moderate intellectual disabilities – a case study
Keywords:
Emotion recognition, skill enhancement, intellectual disabilitiesAbstract
Individuals with intellectual disabilities often present difficulties related to the proper understanding of the emotions of others. This article describes a case history of Daniel, a young man diagnosed with moderate intellectual disability, who experiences this type of problem in social interactions. The described case was based on information obtained during an interview with a parent and from medical and psychological evaluations. The emotion recognition training program for individuals with intellectual disabilities was presented. Subsequent evaluation showed positive effects of the training on Daniels’ ability to recognize emotional expressions. The obtained results suggest that the presented training program can be successfully used to enhance the emotional competence of persons with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities.References
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Adolphs, R. (2002). Recognizing emotions from facial expressions: Psychological and neurological mechanisms. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1 (1),21-62.
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Denham, S.A. (1986). Social cognition, prosocial behavior, and emotion in preschoolers: Contextual validation. Child Development, 51 (1), 194-201.
Ekman, P., & Friesen, W.V. (1976). Pictures of Facial Affect. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
Feinstein, C., & Reiss, A.L. (1998). Autism: The point of view of fragile X studies. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 28, 393-405.
Gallagher, A., & Hallahan, B. (2012). Fragile X-associated disorders: Aclinical overview. Journal of Neurology, 259, 401-413.
Kornreich, C., & Philippot, P. (2006). Dysfunctions of facial emotion recognition in adult neuropsychiatric disorders. Psychologica Belgica, 46 (1-2), 79-98.
Leppanen, J.M., & Hietanen, J.K. (2001). Emotion recognition and social adjustment in school-aged girls and boys. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42 (5), 429-435.
McAlpine, C., Kendall, K.A., & Singh, N.N. (1991). Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by persons with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 96 (1), 29-36.
McAlpine, C., Singh, N.N., Ellis, C.R., Kendall, K.A., & Hampton, C. (1992). Enhancing the ability of adults with mental retardation to recognize facial expressions of emotions. Behavior Modification, 16 (4), 559-573.
Owen, S., & Maratos, F.A. (2016).Recognition of subtle and universal facial expressions in acommunity-based sample of adults classified with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60, 344-354.
Rojahn, J., Kroeger, T.L., & McElwain, D.C. (1994). Performance on the Penn Facial Discrimination Task by adults with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 99 (3), 316-319.
Rojahn, J., Lederer, M., & Tasse, M.J. (1995). Facial emotion recognition by persons with mental retardation: A review of the experimental literature. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 16, 393-414.
Rojahn, J., Rabold, D.E., & Schneider, F. (1995). Emotion specificity in mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 99 (5), 477-486.
Rojahn, J., & Warren, V.J. (1997). Emotion recognition as afunction of social competence and depressed mood in individuals with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 41 (6), 469-475.
Rydin-Orwin, T., Drake, J., & Bratt, A. (1999). The effects of training on emotion recognition skills for adults with an intellectual disability. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12 (3), 253-262.
Sabaratnam, M. (2007). Fragile X syndrome. Psychiatry, 5, 325-330.
Scotland, J.L., Cossar, J., & McKenzie, K. (2015). The ability of adults with intellectual disability to recognise facial expressions of emotion in comparison with typically developing individuals: Asystematic review. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 41-42, 22-39.
Scotland, J.L., McKenzie, K., Cossar, J., Murray, A., & Michie, A. (2016). Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by adults with intellectual disability: Is there evidence for the emotion specificity hypothesis? Research in Developmental Disabilities, 48,69-78.
Stewart, C., & Singh, N.N. (1995). Enhancing the recognition and production of facial expressions of emotion by children with mental retardation. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 16 (5), 365-382.
Wood, P.M., & Kroese, B.S. (2007). Enhancing the emotion recognition skills of individuals with learning disabilities: Areview of the literature. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability, 20, 576-579.
Zaja, R.H., & Rojahn, J. (2008). Facial emotion recognition in intellectual disabilities. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 21 (5), 441-444.
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2017-12-01
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Ruczaj, J. ., & Gacek, M. (2017). Training emotion recognition in individuals with moderate intellectual disabilities – a case study. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Psychologica, 10(1), 208–221. Retrieved from https://studia-psychologica.uken.krakow.pl/article/view/5647
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