Using the Expressive Arts with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma

This guide has been written to accompany the book The Silent Selkie, a children’s story about trauma and offers gentle, creative ways for adults to work with children and young people who have faced adverse childhood experiences.

This guidebook:

• explores the themes of the story and offers guidance to the adult as they use expressive arts to give the child or young person a way to process their e...