Being reborn: the recovery process of postpartum depression in Taiwanese women

Abstract

The experience of postpartum depression should be examined within the social and cultural contexts in which it occurs. These Taiwanese data can be used to develop culturally-sensitive health care. The nursing role is primarily that of reflective listening to help the women adjust to the process of being reborn--an internal process of painful growth represented by motherhood and striving to protect the real self in order to maintain emotional health while negotiating a developmental transition. Preventive interventions might include providing guidance for parenting, counselling of individual mothers, and facilitating the development of support groups.