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Stratford Resources – Divorce and Grief

A Child’s View of Grief – A Guide for Caring Adults – Alan D, Wolfelt, PhD

This is a practical guide for adults who wish to assist bereaved children.  Perhaps no greater helping opportunity exists than helping a child whose life has been touched by the death of someone else.

Because Life Goes On . . . :  Health Canada

This book explains what to expect when going through separation and divorce, how to look at divorce through your children’s eyes, and how to encourage children to have a relationship with both parents.  Resources are also listed.

Canada’s Law on Child Sexual Abuse – Mary Wells

This handbook is written primarily so professionals and parents can understand some of the issues with which child protection workers deal in attempting to respond to and protect sexually abused children. 

(The) Co-Parenting Survival Guide - Elizabeth Thayer and Jeffrey Zimmerman

This book shows you how to avoid the hot spots and the common traps of hostility, inflexibility, and constant squabbling, and develop skills to sustain a co-parenting partnership based on love and concern for your children.

Empty Arms: Coping with miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death – Sherokee Ilse

This book discusses practical suggestions and support for decision-making at the time of loss by those who have been touched by infant death or miscarriage.

Healing your Grieving Heart – Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D

This book offers simple advice and activities for children after a death.  It was written to help children let their grieving thoughts and feelings out.  It helps them and the adults who love them to mourn so that they can feel better and live a happy, full life again. 

Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way – M. Gary Neuman

A sympathetic, practical and loving ways are included in this book which covers all of the problems faced by children of divorce. 

Inner Healing after Ending a Pregnancy – Marilyn Gryte

This is a resource manual offering love and support for women who have terminated a pregnancy.    

Keys to Helping Children Deal with Death and Grief – Joy Johnson

This book offers help for parents to explain the concept of death in ways that will be understandable to children. The author helps parents anticipate children’s responses and needs and also shows how to cope with funeral rites in a meaningful way.

Parenting Through Crisis: Helping kids in times of loss, grief and change - Barbara Coloroso

 This book provides an insightful and practical "ages and stages" guide to helping kids through death, illness, or divorce.  It also addresses the issues of adoption, single or step parenting and reproductive technology.

Separation Survival Kit –Julie Moore, Optimism Place

This is a kit to help women to get through the separation process. Julie Moore, who is the legal advocate at Optimism Place, put it together specifically for women in Perth County.  It is a  practical kit that answers very specific questions for you.

The Single Symphony – A Single-Parent Grief Guide – Suzy Yehl Marta

A timely resource available to assist single-parents in rebuilding their family unit because of a death or divorce.

Uncoupling: Turning points in intimate relationships - Diane Vaughan

In this book you will discover the eleven stages that a couple experience when they separate, as well as helpful advice on managing this painful time.

What you Should Know about Family Law in Ontario – Ministry of the Attorney General –

This booklet contains information about the law as it was at the time it was written (1999).  Subjects include marriage, living together, separation, choosing a lawyer, going to court, getting a divorce, caring for your children, support payments, dividing property, and violence in the home.

When A Parent Is Sick – Helping Parents Explain Serious Illness to Children – Joan Hamilton

This book provides parents and other caregivers with suggestions on how to approach children with the information that their parent is seriously ill.  The author reviews a child’s understanding and response to serious illness at different stages of development. 

When Children Grieve: For adults to help children deal with death, divorce, pet loss, moving, and other losses - John W. James & Russell Friedman

In this book, the authors have created a cutting-edge volume that will help free children from the false idea that they “shouldn’t feel bad” and will empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss.

 There are more resources on grief in the children's book section and also in the video section.

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