[Basic considerations in the rehabilitation of foreign workers].

Rehabilitation involves executive duties, the patient must actively cooperate with the rehabilitation team, and both sides must set clear goals. In the case of rehabilitation of foreigners, it is difficult to set goals because of language and cultural differences. The rehabilitation clinic in Bellikon hospitalizes so many foreigners that it decided to comply with their demands by choosing a specific personnel. In fact, with the purpose of improving the basis for communication, the clinic employs therapists and nursing staff that come from other countries and cultures, offering them further vocational training, too. Not only should misunderstandings and feelings of frustration be avoided as far as possible, but interactive therapy should become the foundation stone for a successful treatment and rehabilitation. The conference on rehabilitation that was organized by the SAR in autumn 1991 made up a part of these efforts.