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Using an emotion‐focused approach in preventing psychological birth trauma
Author(s) -
Gökçe İsbir Gözde,
Yılmaz Mualla,
Thomson Gill
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/ppc.12867
Subject(s) - psychological trauma , competence (human resources) , birth trauma , mental health , psychology , psychological counseling , perspective (graphical) , psychotherapist , posttraumatic stress , clinical psychology , medicine , pregnancy , social psychology , artificial intelligence , biology , computer science , genetics
Purpose This discussion article considers how an emotion‐focused approach can be adopted to prevent psychological birth trauma and to optimize perinatal wellbeing for women and their families. Conclusion Emotion‐focused approaches have a different perspective when compared to other classic psychotherapy methods. This approach may help women to resolve the negative impacts of psychological birth trauma; to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder onset; to lead to better results for mother and baby well‐being; and may be cost effective. Practice Implications Mental health nurses/midwives should receive education about emotion‐focused approaches in addition to gaining competence in basic counseling skills so that they can utilize these approaches with women.