Traumatic events affect biological and psychological processes that hinder development and form patterns for life in adulthood and affect an individual's ability to self-regulate stress, self-experience and relationships with others. The traumatic experience is strongly imprinted in the child’s memory as opposed to everyday experiences and long after the traumatic event, children struggle with compulsive thoughts, emotions, and visual images of the traumatic experience. A traumatic event (as well as a series of traumatic events in a short time) can be very intense so that coping mechanisms are not strong enough to overcome it. This can cause long-term serious consequences (reactions) in the area of physical and mental health and lead to difficulties in the area of psychosocial functioning. Art therapy is defined as the therapeutic application of art expression, visual media and creative process in which the client's reaction to a created or perceived work of art is considered as a reflection of the quality of personal development of abilities, personality, interests and content of concerns and conflict reactions. Artistic expression can help children express deeply repressed problems nonverbally, in line, color, or shape. In that way, children and adolescents can access emotions and experiences that are difficult for them to understand, and artistic expression is a way to get that experience out of themselves and to reduce the feeling of helplessness and loneliness. Therefore, it defined the aim of this review, which refers to the impact of art therapy and its method of application in children and adolescents with traumatic experience. An overview of the results of the studies in this problem area has shown a significant contribution of art therapy to improve mental health and psychosocial functioning in children and adolescents with traumatic experience. The universal language of artistic expression proved to be a way by which children and adolescents express sadness, pain and also hope for the future. Although research indicates a positive effect of art therapy in the field of traumatic experience in children and adolescents, there is a need for further research to gain new insights and inform the wider community about the possibilities and effectiveness of art therapy in this problem area.