Olaf de Camargo is Associate Professor at the Ron Joyce Children's Health Centre of McMaster Children's Hospital in Ontario Canada. He is certified in Medical Quality Management, a member of the steering committee for Physicians of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Advocacy Network), and Education Resource Person for the paediatric residents rotating through the division of Developmental Paediatrics. He is also Director for Continuous Medical Education for the Department of Paediatrics at McMaster Children's Hospital. Liane Simon is Professor of transdisciplinary early childhood intervention and Head of Department Family, Child and Social Work at the Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg Germany. She is a member of the German delegation at WHO meetings concerning the family of international classifications, co-chair of the board of the Northern German Association of Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Intervention and Head of Early intervention Norderstedt, Germany. Gabriel M. Ronen, MD, MSc (health research methodology), FRCP(C) (paediatric neurology)Professor of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a paediatric neurologist he has a wide range of experience with children and youth with neurological conditions. He has been an active clinician, researcher, teacher and mentor with a particular interest in children with epilepsy. Peter L. Rosenbaum is Professor of Paediatrics at McMaster University and the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, Ontario Canada. He is a developmental paediatrician with over 40 years' experience of clinical, health services research and educational activities in the field of childhood disability. His passion has been to move the paradigms in childhood disability beyond a preoccupation with impairments to focus on child and family development and function.

Author Appointments vii

Introduction 1
Peter L Rosenbaum

SECTION A

1 The ICF and the biopsychosocial model of health: From 'disease' to 'health condition' 8
Olaf Kraus de Camargo

2 The concept of 'functioning' 19
Hillegonda A Stallinga

3 Personal factors in clinical practice and public health 25
Olaf Kraus de Camargo

4 Marriage between the ICF and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS): How good is the relationship? 37
Gabriel M Ronen

SECTION B

5 The ICF in clinical practice: Case scenarios and exercises 60
Liane Simon and Olaf Kraus de Camargo

6 The development of effective health and social care teams: ICF as the glue! 76
Stefanus Snyman, Liane Simon and Olaf Kraus de Camargo

7 The ICF: Themes and tools for the education of health professionals 95
Olaf Kraus de Camargo and Stefanus Snyman

8 The ICF informing administration, policy and advocacy 108
Olaf Kraus de Camargo and Jaclyn Pederson

SECTION C

9 The ICF from the parent perspective 118
Jennifer Johannesen

10 Perspectives for future developments of the ICF: Challenges and suggested considerations 130
Olaf Kraus de Camargo

Appendix 1: Case examples and exercises 139

Appendix 2: Team development phases 157

Appendix 3: My F-words goal sheet 161

Appendix 4: ICF discharge/referral form 162

Appendix 5: Blank ICF framework 166

Appendix 6: ICF code sets for children and youth 167

Appendix 7: Useful links and additional resources about the ICF 168

Index 169