Continuing education
ICF-Workshop
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SIEGEL-Academy
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Continuing Education Art Guides:in at age (KuBA)
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Research on bio-psycho-social health and education
Medicine, psychology, pedagogy and social work – these disciplines have traditionally conducted research largelyindependently of each other, using different paradigms of health. In practice, care focused on disorders and deficits and amore humanistic-resource-oriented approach were often incompatible. This also made dialogue between professionalgroups such as medical professionals, social workers and psychologists more difficult.
The current challenges in society, health and education call for an interdisciplinary approach in science and thewillingness to work closely together in practice between different professional groups. Internationally, therefore, a more comprehensive and inclusive picture of health and education has been gaining ground in recent years: the biopsychosocial perspective. It has the potential to integrate different approaches.
The biopsychosocial model encompasses three central components of human functioning and life design, which arerelated to one another: bodily functions and structures, activities and participation from an individual and socialperspective, as well as context factors, i.e. personal and environmental influences. This model is extensively anchored inthe International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) developed by the WHO and is to be usedextensively in Germany, among others, according to the Federal Participation Act (Bundesteilhabegesetz) (2018) and ICD11, which will be published in 2022. This orientation enables and promotes interdisciplinary and interprofessionalcollaboration. It is therefore also at the heart of the ICF Research Institute, where researchers from different disciplinesare networked.
