The number of countries that are evaluating their rehabilitation programmes and, in the process, seeking to introduce or expand occupational therapy services is on the Increase. Kuwait is one of them and, under the auspices of the World Health Organisation, consultancy reports on occupational therapy in the mental health field have been commissioned. This article Is based on the experiences of two visits to Kuwait In the last quarter of 1994.
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