Difference between Therapy and Learning Process

I start by defining what is a therapy?

The word therapy is a suffix element of Greek origin that enters the formation of feminine names with meaning of treatment, care, healing.

The notion of therapy is associated with the branch of medicine focused on teaching to treat various diseases and to face the treatment itself. The treatment is a process that is carried out to reach the essence of something, at the medical level, it is based on the means that make possible the healing or the relief of the illnesses or the symptoms that a disease provokes. There are many types of therapies such as genetics, intensive, occupational, physics, natural therapies (acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy, thermal medicine, yoga, tai chi), which belong to psychology, such as group therapy, psychotherapy , cognitive, systemic, another part are those that are developed with animals, such as equine therapy, delphinotherapy, etc.

Now I will define some of the therapies mentioned

1.-Gene therapy is the treatment consisting of the introduction of specific genes in the cells of the patient to fight certain diseases.

2.- Intensive therapy, are all those areas where intensive care is given to a patient who is in a serious state of health, usually located within hospitals.

3.- Occupational Therapy.- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines occupational therapy as "the set of techniques, methods and actions that, through activities applied for therapeutic purposes prevent and maintain health, favors the restoration of the function, it replaces the invalidating deficits and assesses the behavioral assumptions and their profound significance to achieve greater independence and possible reinsertion of the individual in all its aspects: physical, occupational, mental and social. "(1)

Another definition that WHO makes is that of a therapeutic activity where they explain to us that it refers to the prevention, diagnosis and satisfactory treatment of physical and mental illnesses, the relief of the symptoms of the diseases and the modification or beneficial regulation of the physical state and mental of the organism. (2) 4.- Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy. -In 1958 WHO defines physiotherapy as "the art and science of treatment through therapeutic exercise, heat, cold, light, water, massage and electricity. In addition, physiotherapy includes the execution of electrical and manual tests to determine the value of the affectation and muscular strength, tests to determine the functional capacities, the amplitude of joint movement and measures of vital capacity, as well as diagnostic aids for the control of evolution "(3) The World Confederation for Physiotherapy (WCPT) in 1968 states that it is "the set of methods, actions and techniques that through the application of physical agents cure, prevent, recover and re-adapt patients susceptible to receive physiotherapy treatment"

5.- Psychotherapy. -It is a treatment that aims to change thought, feelings and behaviors. Its main healing instrument is communication that seeks to stimulate thoughts, feelings, sensations and knowledge, which the patient has but does not know how to apply them or not to fully identify them. This communication implies a high degree of confidence and has as its main resource to simply speak, although other techniques are sometimes used such as drawing, writing, acting, etc. (4)

6.- Cognitive Therapy -Conductual It is based on the person understanding how he thinks about himself, about other people and about the world around him, as well as observing the repercussion that exists when executing an action in his thoughts and feelings. Your goal is to change the way you think (cognitive) and how you act (behavioral) with which you can feel better, focusing on the problems in the here and now. (5) 7.- Systemic therapy. It is based on the theoretical aspects of the Systemic school in Psychology, the main characteristic is that they focus their therapeutic objectives specifically on the modification of patterns of interaction between people (Feixas & Miró, 1993), their support base comes out of the general theory of systems, cybernetics, the development of pragmatics of communication and family psychotherapy. The general theory of systems is a multidisciplinary approach which is why it applies to any system, both natural and artificial. The objective is to discover the similarities or isomorphism (same way, models that have the same structure), in the theoretical constructions of the different disciplines. They define a system as a set of objects or elements that are related and interact with each other, thus presupposing the existence of an interdependence between them and the possibility of a change through the reversibility of the relationship. It is considered open and closed systems, since psychotherapy refers to the three main properties of open systems that are totality, feedback (feedback) and equifinality. The general characteristics in this systemic model are observed to the symptoms as dysfunctional expressions of the Ar family system, so that the focus of analysis will not only fall on the patient who has the symptom or problem, but covers the entire system. The solution of the problems or symptoms, are in close connection with the relationships and guidelines established by the members of the system among themselves, that is why we work mainly with the dysfunctional patterns of family interaction. (6)

8.- Animal therapy: In recent years has been implemented contact with animals to help solve certain diseases or health problems, so we can see how horses or dolphins make it easier for patients to recover or improve their progress or move certain areas of the body, thanks to their patience and tolerance that they have in interacting with patients. It is known that dolphins transmit alpha waves through water which interact with the nervous system of man establishing a stimulus that leaves an experience, where they are thought to favor the balance of the person, horses are noble animals whose size allows them to patients can be mounted on them living experiences against the gravity that stimulate their balance thus improving motor deficiencies as well as some syncopations, it has also been observed how dogs help the resolution of affective problems and traumas, for their fidelity and their affection they show in your relationships with your masters.

By describing each of the therapies we can see how the constant in each of them is a process of healing or improving mental or physical health

1.-http://www.neurorhb.com

2.- Medicina tradicional, Medicamentos Esenciales y Políticas Farmacéutica (EDM) OMS/ Ginebra. ( www.who.int/topics/traditional _medicine/definitions/es)

3.-www.fisioibiza.es/definiciones-de-la-oms/

4.-Terapia-psicológica.com.mx/

5.- Consejo Editorial de Educación Pública del Royal College of Psychiartrist. Editor Dr. Philip Timms, actualizado marzo 2007. Traducido en febrero del 2008 por la Dra. Carmen Pinto.

6.- www.fundacionforo.com/pdfs/archivo33.pdf