Building Emotion Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM): Mothers of Toddlers

The BEAM Program is based on best-practices in telehealth and science-based program design principles aimed at promoting maternal mental health and supportive parenting. The BEAM Program mobile application is designed and managed by Tactica Interactive and hosted on the University of Manitoba secure servers. The weekly group telehealth sessions will be led by clinical coaches (a mental health professional or trainee) and will use the secure videoconferencing platform Zoom (Healthcare license). Parent coaches will be mothers who have recently participated in another research group-based mental health intervention. Parent coaches will engage with participants on the community peer support forum and attend weekly telehealth sessions. The therapeutic aims of the BEAM program are to improve anxiety and depression symptoms and parenting skills using content that draws from the Unified Protocol, and emphasizes self-compassion, effective communication practices, and social support networks.