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Family and quality of life: key elements in intervention in children with cerebral palsy
Author(s) -
ROSENBAUM PETER
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04068.x
Subject(s) - cerebral palsy , embodied cognition , international classification of functioning, disability and health , intervention (counseling) , context (archaeology) , psychology , quality of life (healthcare) , service provider , service (business) , quality (philosophy) , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , psychotherapist , rehabilitation , computer science , business , paleontology , marketing , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Modern thinking about children’s health, as embodied in the framework of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – Child and Youth Version, requires that we be attentive to the ‘context’ of children’s lives, namely their families and the well‐being of their families. Family‐centred services provide both a guide to the ‘processes’ of service by service providers and measurable evidence‐based outcomes that link better ‘processes’ with better parental ‘outcomes’. This brief paper provides an overview of these topics, arguing that the themes we address in services, and the way we do that, can have important effects on families, and by extension, on their children.