MPSI Fall 2026 Colloquia Series

Supporting Early Relationships: Findings from the Danish Minding the Baby Trial

Thursday, Sept 24, Noon-1:00 pm (ET)*

In Person at The Freer House

71 East Ferry Street, Detroit, MI 48202

Speaker Maiken Pontoppidan, PhD

Senior Researcher, Danish Center for Social Science Research

This talk presents results from the Danish Minding the Baby trial, a two-year interdisciplinary attachment- and mentalization-based home visiting intervention for vulnerable pregnant women and their partners. Dr. Pontoppidan will present intervention effects, family engagement, implementation, and experiences from both parents and clinicians. Finally, she will introduce their new project to examine prenatal representational assessment using the Pregnancy Interview and the Assessment of Representational Risk (ARR).