Dixon and Stein's Encounters with Children

Proposed Chapter List:

Preface

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

11 - Eight to Nine Months: Exploring and Clinging

13 - One Year: One Giant Step Forward

14 - 15 to 18 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 Ten Years: The World of Middle Childhood

21 - Eleven to Fourteen 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 Challenges: Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

25 - Encounters with Illness: Coping and Growing

26 - Stressful Events: Separation, Loss, Violence, and Death

27 - Resources for Families: An Annotated Bibliography (might all be online)