ABSTRACT
The integration guides are working on a voluntary basis, whereby it needs to be mentioned that the kind of employment as well as the connection to the Sigmund-Freud-Institut has a different quality than that of the intervention group. Project staff regularly presents the project in the integration courses and is informed by the integration course teachers when a woman is pregnant in order to contact her as soon as possible. In 2010, forty-eight percent of children living in families with an immigrant background grew up exposed to at least one situation of risk such as unemployed, low income earning or educationally disadvantaged parents. The curriculum's conceptualisation closely refers to other existing psychoanalytical oriented parenting programmes. Preliminary insights and evaluation of mothers' social stressors show that particularly their socioeconomic situation and problems of residency and citizenship of the newborn often occupy their minds.
