Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Healing Days is a book designed to be used in therapy for kids ages 6-11 and functions as an excellent resource for those who have experienced physical or sexual abuse. Readers will follow four children as they learn ways to cope with their own trauma. Sensitive and empowering, the book models therapeutic coping responses and provides children with tools they may use to deal with their own trauma. A Dear Reader introduction is included for the child reader. Also available is an online Note to Parents and Caregivers.
Synopsis
2013 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award: Mind, Body and Spirit
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.