All these activities are in the service of building
secure attachment bonds between the mother and
her young child. The programme is designed to
teach participants to safely cope with their current
stressful life circumstances and mental health symptoms
– all of which may pose a risk to their parenting
abilities and child’s safety. The programme is also
designed to teach how to parent responsively and
sensitively, despite the aversive context. Each MP
group session has a specific focus related to the
topics described above. Asmothers progress through
the programme, they learn how to regulate their
emotions well enough to feel safe and adequate in
parenting. They learn to think clearly when under
stress so that they can prevent, manage and recover
from problems with anxiety, depression, addiction,
anger, social isolation and dissociation when engaged
in parenting.