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Análise Psicológica

 ISSN 0870-8231

     

 

Maternidade na adolescência: Consequências e trajectórias desenvolvimentais

 

Bárbara Figueiredo (*)

 

 

RESUMO

A maternidade na adolescência é uma condição de risco no desenvolvimento da mãe e do bebé, interferindo adversamente nas suas respectivas trajectórias desenvolvimentais. Mesmo assim, algumas mães são capazes de se adaptarem à circunstância de a maternidade ocorrer durante a adolescência e alguns bebés não apresentam efeitos adversos decorrentes do facto de as suas mães serem adolescentes.

Ao longo deste artigo foram descritas as consequências adversas que podem verificar-se na sequência de a maternidade ocorrer na adolescência, nomeadamente em termos do bem-estar da mãe e do bebé. As dificuldades de adequação da mãe, particularmente em termos da interacção e dos cuidados a providenciar ao bebé, foram também apresentadas, assim como foram analisadas as circunstâncias (factores protectores e condições de resiliência) que possibilitam trajectórias desenvolvimentais mais adaptadas, quer para a mãe adolescente, quer para o seu bebé.

Palavras-chave: Maternidade na adolescência, factores de risco, factores protectores, trajectórias desenvolvimentais.

 

 

ABSTRACT

Adolescent motherhood constitutes a risk factor to the mother's and child's development, having a negative influence on their developmental pathways. Even though, some mothers are able to adapt themselves to having a child in adolescence, and some babies don't suffer from the adverse impact originated from the fact that their mothers are adolescents.

In the present article, we described the adverse consequences that can arise from adolescent motherhood, particularly in terms of mother's and child's well being. Mother's inadequate behaviour, mainly related to the interaction with the baby and to the caregiving, are also presented, and the circumstances (protective factors and resilience conditions) enabling more adapted developmental trajectories, either for adolescent mother and baby, were analysed.

Key words: Adolescent motherhood, risk factors, protective factors, developmental pathways.

 

 

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(*) Departamento de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho. Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto.

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