Estrategias para manejar los efectos psicológicos del síndrome postaborto en mujeres adultas

Abstract

The study of this project will address post-abortion sequelae (SPA) in adult women who have gone through this event either voluntarily or involuntarily. It will be taken into account how the psychological consequences of post-abortion in one way or another have affected the different spheres of her life and her intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. In other words, in this project the physical consequences are left aside, which are the ones that arouse the greatest concern and about which there is more knowledge and information in society due to the fact that they are studied from the medical point of view. Currently the problem of abortion is a controversial issue that has caused discussions worldwide regarding its legality. However, the conditions or circumstances in which the abortion is carried out do not prevent the consequences, both psychological and physical, from manifesting. The most common psychological consequence, at first, is the appearance of post-traumatic stress, which maintains comorbidity with other disorders such as: eating, sleeping, personality and mood. Likewise, the psychological consequences become relevant in the mental health of the pregnant woman, since from the moment she makes the decision to abort she can show tension because she constantly inquires about the action she will carry out. If appropriate coping strategies are not adapted for such post-abortion conditions, they could probably aggravate and end up in psychological pathologies that are difficult to cope with. Therefore, this project will provide strategies that, according to the research addressed in this document, have worked effectively in the processes of acceptance of loss; specifically the grieving process and the logotherapeutic method to deal with the absence of the aborted child. Finally, such strategies will be more successful if you have the absolute predisposition of the person involved, it will depend on their personality, life history and support networks they have.