title: Fostering Emotion Expression and Affective Involvement with Communication Partners in People with Congenital Deafblindness and Intellectual Disabilities.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Recent studies have shown that it is possible to foster affective involvement between people with congenital deafblindness and their communication partners. Affective involvement is crucial for well-being, and it is important to know whether it can also be fostered with people who have congenital deafblindness and intellectual disabilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a multiple-baseline design to examine whether an intervention based on the Intervention Model for Affective Involvement would (i) increase affective involvement between four participants with congenital deafblindness and intellectual disabilities and their 13 communication partners and (ii) increase the participants' positive emotions and decrease their negative emotions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all cases, dyadic affective involvement increased, the participants' very positive emotions also increased and the participants' negative emotions decreased.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicate that communication partners of persons with congenital deafblindness and intellectual disabilities can be successfully trained to foster affective involvement.
authors.affiliation: Royal Dutch Kentalis, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands.|University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marga A W
authors.initials: MAW
authors.lastname: Martens
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Needs Education and Youth Care, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.|Kentalis Deafblindness Center of Excellence, Royal Dutch Kentalis, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marleen J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Needs Education and Youth Care, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wied A J J M
authors.initials: WAJJM
authors.lastname: Ruijssenaars
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huisman
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J Marianne
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Riksen-Walraven
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003142:Communication; D054062:Deaf-Blind Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*
keywords: affective involvement; communication; deafblind; emotions; interaction; intervention