Dixon and Stein’s Encounters with Children, 5th Edition

1. The Importance of Child Behavior and Development in Life Course Health
2. Understanding Children: Theories, Concepts, and Insights
3. Preparing Your Practice for Socially and Emotionally Responsive Care
4. Use of Drawing by Children at Health Encounters
5. The Prenatal Period: Understanding Parent Stress, Mental Health, and Attachment
6. The Newborn: Meeting the Infant
7. Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Special Issues for Medically Vulnerable Infants
8. First Days at Home: Making a Place in the Family
9. One to Two Months: Adjusting to the World
10. Three to Four Months: Smiles and Laughs
11. Six Months: Reaching Out
12. Eight to Nine Months: Exploring and Clinging
13. One Year: One Giant Step Forward
14. Fifteen to Eighteen Months: Declaring Independence and Pushing the Limits
15. Two Years: Language Leaps
16. Three Years: Emergence of Magic
17. Four Years: Clearer Sense of Self
18. Five Years: Opening the School Door
19. Six to Seven Years: Reading, Relationships, and Playing by the Rules
20. Seven to 10 Years: The World of Middle Childhood
21. Eleven to 14 Years: Early Adolescence—Age of Rapid Changes
22. Fifteen to Seventeen Years: Mid-Adolescence—Redefining Self
23. Seventeen to Twenty-One Years: Transition to Adulthood
24. Specific Considerations: Families Impacted by Incarceration and the Criminal Legal System
25. Encounters With Illness: Coping and Growing
26. Stressful Events: Separation, Loss, Violence, and Death
27. Resources for Families: An Annotated Bibliography

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Jenny Radesky, MD, Division Director, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Caroline Kistin, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island