Abstract

ESTEVES, Inês et al. The importance of resilience and effective social support in the experience of early pregnancy and motherhood. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2018, n.spe6, pp.-16. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0207.

BACKGROUND: Study based on the intervention process of a family that experienced an unplanned adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, as a result of an occasional relationship through virtual correspondence. Resilience is one of the variables described in the literature that seems to confer protection for adaptation to motherhood and that interferes in the bonding process. OBJECTIVE: Evaluating the influence of resilience and effective social support in an adolescent who has experienced early pregnancy and / or maternity. METHODS: Non-experimental, qualitative, follow-up case study. Evaluation and family intervention developed in 3 different moments, using as data-gathering instruments: interview, questionnaires, scales and observation, using as a theoretical-operational reference the Dynamic Model of Family Assessment and Intervention (Figueiredo, 2013). RESULTS: In a first phase: Conflict relationship with the parents, prior to the early gestation. At the end of it, the young woman interrupts her school journey. After parturition, there was an (in) definition of the parental role: the grandmother played an overprotective role over the newborn, overlapping the mother in the various spheres (care, bonding). Follow-up: Adequate adolescent parental role exercise, without overlapping roles. Strong and healthy bonding between young mother and son. Well-baby newborn. Teen resilient and satisfied with the support she receives from the surrounding community. It resumes its school, personal, familiar and social journey. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescent mothers who benefit from adequate social and family support and who have protective factors of an individual and relational nature manage to reach a favorable level of adaptation to motherhood.

Keywords : Pregnancy; Adolescent; Family; Resilience; Emotional adjustment.

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