正念疗法对孕妇心理健康的影响

由于特殊的生理心理状态,妊娠分娩可能导致女性心理压力增高,从而影响妊娠结局并导致产后抑郁发病率上升。而针对孕妇心理健康的课程及相关研究较少,孕妇的心理健康问题已成为一个迫切需要解决的社会公众问题。正念疗法是一种基于正念的心理干预方法,其核心在于觉察而不评价,为目前心理治疗领域的主流疗法,能有效缓解压力、减轻焦虑与抑郁,促进身心健康。在慢性疾病患者的精神障碍治疗方面,正念疗法得到了广泛应用并取得了明确的效果。在孕妇的心理干预方面,正念疗法也越来越多地得到应用。目前,针对孕妇的正念减压干预方法包括正念分娩和育儿及以正念为基础的分娩教育,能够减轻孕妇自感压力、增强分娩效能,从而有效改善孕妇的心理健康状况。

Mindfulness-Based Therapy on the Psychological Health of Pregnant Women

Due to the special condition of physiology and psychology, pregnancy and childbirth may lead to the increased psychological stress in women, which may affect the pregnancy outcomes and increase the incidence of postpartum depression. However, few courses and studies focus on the psychological health of pregnant women. The mental health problem of pregnant women has been an urgent social problem. Mindfulness-based therapy is a method of psychological intervention based on mindfulness. The core is perceiving but not evaluating. Mindfulness-based therapy has become a mainstream method in the field of psychotherapy, which can effectively relieve stress, alleviate anxiety and depression, and promote physical and mental health of patients. Mindfulness-based therapy has been widely used in the treatment of mental disorders in patients with chronic diseases, and achieved definite results. In the field of psychological intervention on pregnant women, mindfulness-based therapy has been increasingly applied. At present, the mindfulness decompression intervention for pregnant women include the mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP) and the mindfulness-based childbirth education (MBCE), which can reduce the self-perceived pressure and enhance the efficiency of childbirth of pregnant women, and thus effectively improve the mental health.