Abstract

AZEVEDO, Elisa Cardoso; FRIZZO, Giana Bitencourt; SILVA, Milena da Rosa  and  DONELLI, Tagma Marina Schneider. Maternal perception about postpartum depression and psychofunctional symptoms: a case of mother-baby psychotherapy. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2020, vol.32, n.1, pp. 79-100. ISSN 0103-5665.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0032n01A04.

This study examined the changes in maternal perception about her own depressive symptoms and the baby's psychofunctional symptoms in a context of mother-baby group psychotherapy. Participants were a mother-baby dyad in which the mother presented postpartum depression and the baby had psychofunctional symptoms. The instruments employed were: EPDS, MINI Interview, Interview on Pregnancy and Childbirth, Interview of the Maternity Experience, and SCL questionnaire. The single-case study design was used and a qualitative analysis was carried out, correlating the clinical materials from the eleven psychotherapy sessions with the theoretical knowledge found in the literature, based on a psychoanalytic understanding. The results revealed that the maternal depressive symptoms and the baby's psychofunctional symptoms were mutually associated and that, through the intervention, the maternal perception about her symptoms and the baby's was modified, associated with an improvement of the symptoms in both.

Keywords : maternal perception; postpartum depression; baby psychofunctional symptoms; mother-infant group psychotherapy.

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