Divorce Decoded: Supporting Your Child Through Every Stage

A practical guide for parents supporting children through separation or divorce. Divorce Decoded offers prompts and age-aware examples to help adults plan conversations, answer common questions, and notice when a child may need additional support. Therapists can use it as a discussion aid with parents.

Inside the guide

• A plan-ahead worksheet for deciding what to say to children
• Suggestions for tailoring conversations to preschoolers, young children, tweens, and teens
• Common child questions and ways to respond
• Signs of distress and ways to make space for children’s feelings
• Ideas for transitions between homes and reducing children’s exposure to conflict
• Co-parenting considerations where safe and appropriate

Digital download. Families differ, and situations involving violence, coercion, or safety concerns require an individualized approach rather than a standard co-parenting script.

Use and sharing

One purchase licenses one individual. Parents may use the guide for personal education. A clinician may print and give copies to parents they personally serve, including for between-session use. Each clinician using the resource needs their own purchase. Do not share the downloadable file, post it online or to a shared drive, distribute copies outside your own client care, or resell the resource.

This educational resource does not replace individualized clinical or legal advice.