Healing Days: A Guide For Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma

Healing Days is a sensitive and reassuring story intended for children who have experienced trauma and covers the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that many kids have after a bad and scary thing happens.

A useful book to read with a parent or therapist, Healing Days emphasizes that children are not to blame for what happened, and that they can get help and look forward to a happy future. Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.

Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.

You can download an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers including a list of helpful resources from APA.org.

• A Terrible Thing Happened
• Trauma: Teaching kids all about trauma
• Do You Have a Secret? (Let's Talk About It!)
• Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care
• Once I Was Very Very Scared
• A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma
• The Day My Daddy Lost His Temper: Empowering Kids That Have Witnessed Domestic Violence (The Empowering Kids Series)
• Please Tell: A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse (Early Steps)
• Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care (Kids Are Important)
• Families Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights (Kids Are Important Series)