Top trauma-recovery resources for kids and parents

Help your child overcome anxiety, stress or trauma with our pick of recommended resources - endorsed or created by top child therapists and trauma specialists from around the world. 

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Books for kids

Shows how to befriend their body

Guides children through naming their feelings and the sensations that come with them. When we can track and name our feelings, we have more power to change them.

Sweetly simplifies anxiety

Characters are based on brain science, offering ways to start conversations about small children's worries and how them tame their very own inner guard dog.

Gently explores death

Mog, the family cat, dies but a little part of her stays on earth. Her story offers kids - and adults - a way of beginning to understand and navigate the loss of a loved one.

Gives new ways of calming down

This story was written to help children understand how stress can affect them, and ways to manage it.

Explains anxiety

Understanding why anxiety feels the way it does and where the physical symptoms come from is a powerful step in turning anxiety around.

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Resilience-building games for kids

Promotes healthy attachment

Dragon Wings is an uplifting adventure board game created by a young girl and her father to help kids relate, and for adults to relate to kids better - through fun, role-play and problem-solving. The game ends once everyone's dragon can fly.
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By artist Salima Alikhan

Helps families connect better

Sensation Game is a gentle, fun, therapeutic game to help children and families feel more connected - to their own nervous system, to each other, and to the world around them. Especially helpful when a child or teen is depressed, shut down or numb. 

Books for parents, carers & teachers

Simple guide to child trauma

"Translates complex ideas into a 'practice-rich' language for adults who need to understand the inner worlds of children, rather than simply explore their 'wishes and feelings." 
From the foreword by ​Professor David Shemmings OBE

Essential trauma-proofing tools

Master SEPs Maggie and Peter reveal practical and reassuring recipes for restoring resilience in specific situations, including medical procedures, sexual trauma, divorce, accidents and falls. Very helpful and hopeful real-life case studies, too.

Step by step strategies

 Explains how close relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories and through this help them raise compassionate, resilient children. 

Podcasts for parents

Expert Interview #20
​Candy Smith: Somatic Experiencing and the Anxious Child

When children become anxious they often shut down. Somatic Experiencing therapy has an important contribution to helping children overcome the freeze response and express the natural protective power of fight or flight.

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