'Nurture and Play' - a Pilot Study

"The NnP group Intervention is a group-based, manualized parenting intervention initiated during pregnancy and continued into the postnatal period until infant age seven months. The program is designed to enhance parenting abilities focusing on three domains: Emotional availability, parental reflective functioning, and the ability to regulate own emotions. During NnP, the parents are supported in enhancing their emotional availability through caring and playing activities.~The intervention has been developed in Finland by Dr. Saara Salo and colleagues and tested in a randomized controlled trial among pregnant women with depression and it is now being implemented in Finland. The results from the study showed that mothers in the intervention group showed more emotional availability and higher levels of reflective functioning and experienced fewer depressive symptoms compared to mothers in the control group."