Protocolo de atendimento psicológico para adolescentes parturientes em maternidades: uma experiência na Psicologia Hospitalar

Abstract

In the broad context of Health Psychology, Hospital Psychology is a field of action that intervenes on psychological and emotional variables during hospitalization. In this sense, teenage pregnancy is a research theme that needs careful attention and specific interventions by the hospital psychologist. It was from the experiences lived during the accomplishment of one of the obligatory internships in the Health area that the motivation for the accomplishment of this work arose, which is constituted as the result of an action research on the way to provide psychological care to the parturient adolescents in a maternity ward. The action research method is characterized by the possibility that the researcher has to contribute effectively to social issues such as teenage pregnancy in a public maternity ward. The care provided to adolescent pregnant women required much more than intervention techniques, but actions that were punctual and that helped the psychologist to perform more effective care. Because of this, the development of a protocol that would guide such care and that encompassed the specificity and particularity of pregnant women within this group proved to be a possibility of intervention. The objective of this work was to develop a protocol of psychological care that helps to perform more effective interventions with parturient adolescents in public hospitals.