Article

The transformation of International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities
and Handicaps into International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
Health (ICF) meant a lot for those needing to communicate in terms of functioning
concept in their daily work.
With ICF's commonly understood language, the
decades' uncertainty on what concepts and terms describe functioning and
disabilities seemed to be dispelled. Instead, operationalizing ICF to measure the
level of functioning along with the new nomenclature has not been as unambiguous.
Transforming linguistic terms into quantified functioning seems to need another
type of theorizing. Irrespective of challenging tasks, numerous projects were
formulated during the past decades to apply ICF for measurement purposes. This
article updates one of them, the so-called biopsychosocial-ICF model, which uses
all ICF categories but classifies them into more components than ICF for
measurement purposes.
The model suggests that both disabilities and functional
resources should be described by collecting and organizing functional measurement
data in a multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial data matrice.

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