Recommended Reading

The resources listed here have not all been formally endorsed by the Collaborative Law Institute, but we hope they might be useful to you:

• Serenity Space by Stu Webb
• The Collaborative Way to Divorce by Ron Ousky and Stu Webb
• The Complete Divorce Recovery Handbook by John P. Splinter
• The Good Divorce by Constance Ahrons
• For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by Mavis Hetherington

Resources for Adults:

• The Co-Parenting Handbook by Karen Bonnell with Kristin Little.
• The Pro Child Way: Parenting with an Ex by Ellen Kellner.
• We’re Still a Family by Constance Ahrons.
• Why Did you Have to Get a Divorce?  And Can I Still Get a Hamster?  by Anthony Wolf
• SPLIT video and Viewers Guide by Ellen Bruno and Christina McGhee   www.brunofilms.com
• Crucial Conversations:  Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler
• Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours byDaphne Rose Kingma.
• Must We Say We Did Not Love? by Monza Naff
• Taking the War Out of Our Words by Sharon Strand Ellison

Resources for Children

For Young Children:

• My Family’s Changing: A First Look at Family Break-up by Pat Thomas
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Jeanie Franz Ransom
• Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families by LaureneKrasby Brown and Marc Brown
• Was it the Chocolate Pudding? A Story for Little Kids about Divorce by Sandra Levin and Bryan Langdo

For Older Children and Teens:

• Where Am I Sleeping Tonight? (A Story of Divorce) by Carol Gordon Ekster
• The Divorce Workbook for Children by Lisa Schab
• Help for the Hard Times by Earl Hipp
• Divorce is Not the End of the World: Zoe and Evan’s Coping Guide for Kids by Zoe Stern, Evan Stern, and Ellen Sue Stern