Project:
Implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) into practice: vocational rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. Slovenian experiences of international importance.

The dissertation intends to make a contribution to answering the two fundamental questions of the ICF research: first, what is the real practical additional value of the ICF and ICF-based tools and second, how do the current users of the classification perceive the ICF as a theoretical construction and practical tool. Finding comprehensive answers to both questions is necessary for accelerating the introduction of the ICF into practice and tailoring the existing strategies to the users’ needs and identifying the gaps in the users’ knowledge and skills with regard to the ICF. This research project tries to address both issues taking a small country (Slovenia) as a case study. In order to do this two highly relevant fields in rehabilitation were chosen: rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury and vocational rehabilitation.

A last subproject consists of a study which aims to construct a universal measure of functioning applicable across clinical populations by integrating information obtained across the ICF categories of the Minimal Generic ICF Set. That will allow clinicians, researchers and other professionals to have an immediate insight into functioning of a person and compare functioning at both individual and population levels.