Recognizing that the majority of women referred to child protective services are dealing with untreated past trauma or abuse, the project seeks to strengthen and preserve families, prevent maltreatment recidivism, and alleviate maternal PTSD/depression, by delivering and evaluating (in a NIH-supported, randomized control trial (RCT) setting) a promising therapeutic intervention which has been shown in previous research to reduce or eliminate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in mothers, while also imparting parenting skills that can support healthy mother-child bonding, improve parenting behaviors, improve child well-being, and dramatically reduce maltreatment recidivism.