New approaches to the view of people with health disability and the international classification of funcitoning, disability and health.
2010
Abstract
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - ICF, endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2001, is a base for evaluation of functional abilities and psycho-senso-motoric potential among people with disabilities. The EU states accepted this classification as a basic philosophy and politics of rehabilitation in the EU and as an instrument of inclusion.
The classification was published in the Czech translation in 2008 but has not been much used in practice. The aim of the article is to inform colleagues from the field of psychology about the classification, for they may encounter it in a multidisciplinary work in the context of somatic diseases and especially in work with mentally ill people.