The group setting as a container to promote psychological well-being: The multidisciplinary design of a group of new mothers to re-think motherhood

Journal title GRUPPI
Author/s Monica Compostella, Laura Sala
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2023/1-2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 123-139 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/gruoa1-2-2023oa21221
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The article traces the dialogue between a social worker and a psychotherapist, co-leaders of a weekly group that is open to pregnant women in addition to new mothers and their infants under 12 months of age. Ample space is given to the account of social design and the intercultural and interdisciplinary breath that led the operators and services involved to initially address the migration issue and its critical issues in terms of isolation, risk of stigmatization, discomfort and marginality through a complex and integrative observation.) We focus on outlining how the care of a group of women united by crossing a central phase of the physiological life cycle, has made it possible to create a place with preventive values at various levels and the co-construction of group experiences, which navigate differences, reveal similarities and create hybridization. Space is also given to the social changes that the group has undergone, to the role played by the pandemic and to the new developments in being, to the considerations of the writers regarding the professional and social enrichment that the experience has given.

Keywords: ; Maternity; Migration; Design; Interculturality; Interdisciplinarity; Integration

Monica Compostella, Laura Sala, Il setting gruppale come contenitore per promuovere benessere psicologico: la progettazione multidisciplinare di un gruppo di neomamme per ri-pensare la maternità in "GRUPPI" 1-2/2023, pp 123-139, DOI: 10.3280/gruoa1-2-2023oa21221