Facial emotion recognition, depressed mood and stigma in adolescents with intellectual disabilities

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Adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) are at increased risk of developing depression compared to their typically developing peers.  It is important to consider social context when working with individuals with ID and depression.  Social and cognitive factors relevant to depression in the ID population include stigma, low self-esteem, hopelessness and negative attributional style.  Facial emotion recognition (FER) is an important prerequisite for social skills, which has been found to be impaired in depression; however, there have been reports that this ability is relatively spared in individuals with LD and depression.  The literature review considers developmental perspectives to the development of depression in adolescents with ID.  Research is drawn from the depression literature in typically developing adolescents, with consideration of how having ID may increase susceptibility to identified risk factors.  Awareness of stigma is central to the social context of adolescents with ID.  Changes in FER ability have been associated with depression among individuals with depression with and without ID.  A hypothetical link between perceiving other’s negative emotions as a result of the social stigma associated with ID and depression is proposed in the literature.  The empirical paper explored the relationship between depression, FER and experience of stigma in the adolescent ID population.  Verbal ability influenced FER, but there was limited evidence for an effect of depression on FER, and no evidence that this was associated with stigma.  Stigma and depression were correlated.

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