“I Want to Give up my Baby for Adoption”:: The Management of Healthcare Professionals

• Autor(a) principal: Faraj, Suane Pastoriza
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Martins, Bruna Maria Corazza, dos Santos, Samara Silva, Siqueira, Aline Cardoso, Arpini, Dorian Mônica
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18039
• topic: Adoção; Maternidade; Direitos da mulher; Profissionais de saúde; Adoption; Motherhood; Women's rights; Health professionals

This qualitative study aimed to understand how healthcare professionals of public hospitals deal with the caseof mothers who decided to give their child up for adoption. Interviews were conducted with seven healthcare professionals.The professionals related that most of the women who gave their children up for adoption were from low-income conditionsand they had not done a good prenatal care during pregnancy. The interviews also evidenced their attempts to convince mothersto renounce giving their children up for adoption, besides their perception that they do not have preparation to deal with suchcases. Therefore, it is necessary to bring this theme into discussion in the health care teams, as well as including Psychologyand Social Services professionals in the team, so that follow-up of the pregnant and puerperal women can be accomplished.