Artículo 9 – De la práctica a la enseñanza: Desarrollo de la psicología perinatal en Argentina

FROM PRACTICE TO TEACHING: DEVELOPMENT OF PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY IN ARGENTINA

ABSTRACT

The field of Perinatal Psychology encompasses pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium and the first two years of the child. It works with two subjects simultaneously: the pregnant or postpartum mother and the baby. The maternity process represents a vital and evolutionary crisis.

Since 1995, the Perinatal Psychology Extension Program of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, has been developed in hospitals of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), generating its own perinatal intervention devices with an interdisciplinary perspective.

In 2017, the specialty in Perinatal Psychology was created by the Association of Psychologists of the Province of Buenos Aires. In 2018, the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires proposes to the Superior Council the approval of the project to create the specialization career in Perinatal Psychology, to grant the title of Specialist in Perinatal Psychology; it begins its teaching in the year 2020.