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Healing traumatizing provider interactions among women through short-term group therapy

Dianna Spies Sorenson1

  • 1Department of Graduate Nursing, College of Nursing, Box 2275, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA. dianna_sorenson@sdstate.edu

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
|December 20, 2003
PubMed

A short-term, cognitive group therapy intervention method (Insight: A cognitive enhancement program for women) to reduce or resolve ongoing psychological disruption and/or trauma was tested among women who experienced traumatizing provider interactions (TPI) in their childbearing experience. The sample included nine married, Caucasian women, ages 26-45, college educated; one to five children (n=19). Birth Perception; Posttraumatic Childbirth Stress; and Traumatizing Provider Interaction scores among 19 births confirmed perinatal psychological trauma. Descriptive and statistical comparisons for UCLA Loneliness Scale III, Coopersmith Self-Esteem Scale, Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Index and Beck Depression Inventory II, revealed marked psychological improvement in postintervention measurements.

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