Healing Days: A Guide For Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma

Written by Susan Farber Straus PhD and Illustrated by Maria Bogade

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. An extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers including a list of helpful resources from APA.org can be downloaded.