DONATION AND CARE: REPORTS OF MOTHERS WHO IF INTEGRALLY DEDICATED TO CARING FOR DISABLED SONS

Abstract

The study aimed to point out which psychological processes are involved in the integral dedication and care of children with disabilities. Eight mothers of people with disabilities attended the CER IV - Mens Sana Specialized Rehabilitation Center. The data were subjected to semi-structured interviews, conducted and subsequently analyzed according to a content analysis. The results point to understand the reality of daily child care with the impact it is necessary to understand as subjectivities of mothers, as realities in which they live. Motherhood brings with it a reality surrounded by pains and pleasures, such benefits as motivation for the continuation of constant and integral care, because even if not physically present, the mother is symbolically present, because even away from the child, she is always thinking and commanding her own. care. It is concluded that from an understanding of motherhood as something specific, with singular signifiers and an experience of treatment and care, pains and loves, it is expected as much as mothers, as people in general, understand that the weaknesses Tiredness and guilt are also part of the process and this does not minimize the love between mother and child.