Journal on Developmental Disabilities
Le journal sur les handicaps du développement

Abstract

A scheduled home-visit from a staff-supported, community-based facility was used to examine whether post-visit adjustment in a sample of adults (n=28) with mild intellectual disabilities is associated with pre-visit attributions of Expressed Emotion (EE) (i.e., criticism, hostility and/or over-protectiveness) to their primary residence counsellor. The findings suggest that participants who perceived their residence counsellor and/or a key family member as being a high EE individual were more likely to have post-visit increases on measures of behavioural dysfunction and subjective distress. Various implications of the findings are discussed. 

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