A psicologia em uma maternidade de alto risco: um relato de experiência

Abstract

This work is an experience report based on a mandatory curricular internship carried out in the maternity ward of the Hospital Universitário Professor Alberto Antunes (HUPAA) by the discipline of Supervised Internship I and II of the Psychology course at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) , A.C campus Simons. During the writing process, personal notebooks, internship reports and mental maps of the cases attended were used. The HUPAA maternity is a space responsible for the care and health care of high-risk pregnant women and has a multidisciplinary team. One of these specialties is psychology, which offers welcoming and qualified listening to women who are hospitalized due to physical complications that put their health and well-being of the fetus at risk. Psychology becomes necessary since pregnancy is a phase permeated by countless emotions and ambivalent feelings. In this way, the act of welcoming becomes an interventional tool that enables mental health care and prevention of psychic illness, in addition to promoting humanized care and strengthening the bond between the patient, family members and the team that makes up the place.