Building Emotion Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM): Community Partnership With Family Dynamics

The BEAM Program is based on best-practices in telehealth and science-based program design aimed at promoting maternal mental health and supportive parenting. The BEAM Program app is hosted on the University of Manitoba secure servers and is designed/managed by Tactica Interactive. The weekly group telehealth sessions will be led by clinical coaches (a mental health professional or Doctoral-Level Clinical Psychology Student) and will use the secure videoconferencing platform Zoom (Healthcare license). Parent coaches will be mothers who have recently participated in a prior iteration of the BEAM program. Parent coaches will engage with participants on the community peer support forum and will also attend weekly telehealth sessions. The therapeutic aims of the BEAM program are to improve symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as parenting skills, and will emphasize self-compassion, effective communication practices, and social support networks.

"MoodMission will be used as our Standard of Care control group. MoodMission is an app based on CBT principles which creates tailored missions for mothers. These missions are based on self-reported mood and are aimed to improve mental health symptoms."