Psychosocial changes in preggo

Question 1

therapeutic communication

Answer 1

• Therapeutic responses
• Recognize your client’s feelings
• Clarify their concerns
• Allow open-ended answers / discussion
• Provide accurate education

Question 2

Relationship to pregnancy in first trimester

Answer 2

• Ambivalent feelings toward pregnancy common

Question 3

Relationship to pregnancy in 2nd trimester

Answer 3

• Concerns with body image

* Nesting behaviors

Question 4

Relationship to pregnancy in 3rd trimester

Answer 4

• Dislikes being pregnant, but loves the child

Question 5

4 stages of family development and definition

Answer 5

1. Prepare
   • Prepare for role as child care providers
2. Reorganize
   • Reorganize home, family member duties, patterns of money management
3. Reorient
   • Reorient Family relationships
4. Adjust
   • Each pregnancy: adjust to transitions in relationships with each other, children

Question 6

what is binding in?

Answer 6

process where patient accepts pregnancy (1st trimester), more focus on herself

Question 7

process of acceptance of child

Answer 7

quickening, acceptance of child coming, more focus on child

Question 8

Tasks of pregnancy to be successful

Answer 8

• Incorporate pregnancy into identity
• “Binding-in”- process where patient accepts pregnancy (1st trimester), more focus on herself
• Acceptance of child- quickening, acceptance of child coming, more focus on child
• Reorder relationships- feelings of vulnerability and concerns about upcoming birth, acceptance of child by others

Question 9

maternal tasks of pregnancy

Answer 9

• Seeking safe passage (education- ex: nutrition, parenting classes)
• Securing acceptance
• Learning to give of self
• Committing self to the unknown child

Question 10

A woman is in the first trimester of her first pregnancy and confides to the nurse that she is not really sure if she is happy because so many things in her life will change. She is not sure she is willing to
alter her current lifestyle. What action by the nurse is most appropriate?
• Ask the woman if she would like to see a counselor.
• Reassure the woman that ambivalence is normal now.
• Refer the woman to an expectant-mother support group.
• Tell the woman she needs to think of her unborn child

Answer 10

• Reassure the woman that ambivalence is normal now.

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