Intellectual equal synonym code#
In the current WHO classification systems, MR appears in the ICD and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) within the grouping of psychiatric conditions, and at the same time, it can be coded as a disability in the WHO International Classification of Functioning (ICF) (as impairments in intellectual functions, code b117). The diagnostic criteria for MR had remained unchanged since 1968 when the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored a first international committee that provided the recommendation for its diagnosis in International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Eight Revision (ICD-8).
The debate has gone on for more than two decades in parallel to the discussion on the concept of intelligence, human functioning and disability. The classification and diagnostic criteria are therefore crucial issues and have important implications for their prevalence, development of interventions, as well as measures of outcome, service provision and planning. It is also recognized that these cluster of syndromes that constitute MR have complex array of neurodevelopmental underpinnings. MR represents a cluster of syndromes that start early in life and are characterized by varying patterns of severe and persistent impairments in cognitive and personal functions, such as intelligence, learning, adaptive behaviour and skills.
The conceptualisation and the positioning of Mental Retardation (MR) within the taxonomy of mental disorders have long been controversial.
0 kommentar(er)
