Psicoeducación para el cuidado de la salud mental de las mujeres embarazadas usuarias de un centro de salud pública

Abstract

The experience described in the present work entitled Psychoeducation for the mental health care of pregnant women users of a public health center, which has as its main objective to reflect on the psychoeducational process for the mental health care of pregnant women in a public health center, so that the experience can be more deeply understood and thus improved. The development of this experience was applied with a cognitive-behavioral approach with the aim of promoting the psychological well-being of the participants by creating effective techniques for the management of stress, anxiety and other emotional elements that may influence gestation. Applying techniques such as active listening, psychoeducational workshops and training on emotional wellbeing in pregnant women. For the elaboration of the systematization, the descriptive qualitative method was used through the use of techniques to gather information such as participant observation, attendance records and focus groups. For this purpose, six psychoeducational workshops were held in the waiting room of the health center, which resulted in the clients having coping strategies and being able to express their emotions adequately. There were obstacles, such as poor communication among the staff in charge, which sometimes led to delays in the workshops. This work highlights the importance of implementing psychoeducational workshops on mental health in pregnancy, since this is a very little attended topic, causing serious problems in the emotional stability of patients or pregnant women. This systematization of experiences allowed to know the importance of psychoeducation for mental health in pregnant women, in the same way, the application of a cognitive-behavioral approach in the workshops facilitated learning in terms of coping strategies.