Dixon and Stein's Encounters with Children

Jenny Radesky, M.D. is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Radesky's research focuses on family digital media use, child social-emotional development, and parent-child interaction. She uses a combination of observational, qualitative, and passive sensing methods to examine how parents and young children use mobile media throughout daily routines. Dr. Radesky authored the 2016 American Academy of Pediatrics digital media guidelines for young children. https://www.pbs.org/parents/authors/jenny-radesky-md and Twitter: @jennyradesky Associate Professor Caroline Kistin works at the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

• 1. The Importance of Child Behavior and Development in Life Course Health2. Understanding Children: Theories, Concepts, and Insights3. Preparing Your Practice for Socially and Emotionally Responsive Care4. Use of Drawing by Children at Health Encounters5. The Prenatal Period: Understanding Parent Stress, Mental Health, and Attachment6. The Newborn: Meeting the Infant7. Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Special Issues for Medically Vulnerable Infants8. First Days at Home: Making a Place in the Family9. One to Two Months: Adjusting to the World10. Three to Four Months: Smiles and Laughs11. Six Months: Reaching Out12. Eight to Nine Months: Exploring and Clinging13. One Year: One Giant Step Forward14. Fifteen to Eighteen Months: Declaring Independence and Pushing the Limits15. Two Years: Language Leaps16. Three Years: Emergence of Magic17. Four Years: Clearer Sense of Self18. Five Years: Opening the School Door19. Six to Seven Years: Reading, Relationships, and Playing by the Rules20. Seven to 10 Years: The World of Middle Childhood21. Eleven to 14 Years: Early Adolescence-Age of Rapid Changes22. Fifteen to Seventeen Years: Mid-Adolescence-Redefining Self23. Seventeen to Twenty-One Years: Transition to Adulthood24. Specific Considerations: Families Impacted by Incarceration and the Criminal Legal System25. Encounters With Illness: Coping and Growing26. Stressful Events: Separation, Loss, Violence, and Death27. Resources for Families: An Annotated Bibliography

"...fulfils its objective of leading the readers to apply age/stage appropriate approaches at each encounters with children. The clinicians spend several years training to achieve the maturity to be able to comprehensively understand the child’s perspective.... This book is unique in setting the scenes for each encounter rendering practical guidance on how-to-approach at each stage of the child’s life, thereby bringing the children’s perspectives to the fore. [Also] goes up to discuss childhood depression, digital and social media, educational opportunity, bullying and much more. The included eBook version allows access to all of the text, which may also be read aloud! In summary, I would like to say this book approaches child development in altogether novel manner; makes reading it a pleasure while guiding the learners well." - Dr Neel Kamal, BACCH Newsletter, 2025