Therapeutic process: the Healing process
A therapeutic process is the psychological communications and transformations that take place between patient and therapeutic specialists during the usual encounters in the therapy session. It includes all of the observable events, and that can be recorded during therapy sessions. I remember a time when I was suffering from Arthritis, a chronic condition that causes the inflammation of joints and making them have severe pain. The physicians played their role in administering drugs as a therapeutic process that would help me to recover from the illness. The diagnosis involved physical examination in checking for swollen joints or body motion. Blood tests and X-rays were used to assert the diagnosis. It is very true that humans physically heal, but the healing itself is a bio-cultural process that is usually complex.
Out of the different therapeutic processes recognized by medical anthropologists, the clinical therapeutic process is the main one offered by the physicians. It is a healing process in which the drugs or medicines given by the physicians have active ingredients that are assumed to treat the symptoms of the condition or the leading cause of the disorder. It is not only the clinical therapeutic process in a healing process that can aid. Other therapeutic processes can go hand in hand with the clinical therapeutic process. While at the hospital, I was visited by my family members. In this case, I went through the social support therapeutic process, which is known to be a healing process involving the social relationships of a patient such as friends and family people who sit close to the patient while ill.
Medical anthropologists have a crucial responsibility in having an understanding and controlling the spread of disorders, such as chronic diseases. What is taught is not different from what people do during the healing process. The social support therapeutic process aids a patient gain hope of recovering quickly and still reduces stress and depression but not addressing the symptoms and the cause of the condition.