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Dixon and Stein’s Encounters with Children,

Edition 5 Pediatric Behavior and Development

Editors: Edited by Jenny Radesky, MD and Caroline Kistin, MD, MSc

Publication Date: 27 Jan 2025

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Building on the legacy of Drs. Suzanne D. Dixon and Martin T. Stein, Dixon and Stein’s Encounters with Children, Fifth Edition, offers a unique, how-to approach to understanding the developmental stages of childhood, providing practical strategies for today’s clinicians who interact with children and families. Unlike pathology-focused pediatrics texts, this compact volume examines typical child development and offers expert guidance on childhood stages, developmental challenges, family wellbeing, and social determinants of health. From the neonatal visit and newborn exam through the late adolescent years, this highly regarded reference provides thorough, evidence-based guidance with an emphasis on relationships as central to a child’s wellbeing. Content is aligned with the well-child visit schedule, making it highly relevant to new and experienced clinicians alike. Now under the expert guidance of new editors, Drs. Jenny Radesky and Caroline Kistin, this edition.

Key Features

Brings the child’s perspective into focus through the use of numerous children’s drawings and quotes
Contains a new chapter on the juvenile justice system and school-to-prison pipeline, as well as updates to topics and language that are inclusive of BIPOC families, LGBT families, those experiencing poverty and related material insecurities, children experiencing foster care, and community partnerships to help families under stress
Draws upon the knowledge and experience of experts in the field and includes new guidance on addressing social determinants of health, promoting parent-child attachment, promoting equitable school readiness, and supporting families through traumatic experiences
Provides Observational, Interview, and Examination points for each age, and presents a "Heads Up" section in each chapter, alerting clinicians to certain behaviors that may be present
Discusses key topics such as childhood depression, digital and social media, educational opportunity, community violence, bullying, learning disabilities, and much more
Includes data gathering sections at the end of each chapter that demonstrate how to apply information in clinical settings by using age-appropriate interview techniques and activities
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

About the author

Edited by Jenny Radesky, MD, Division Director, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 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, USA

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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4 Stars! "This is revised, superb, detailed, and well-written text about pediatric behavior and development. It is a resource for child health clinicians at all levels of training and practice that increases knowledge, supports meaningful engagement with patients and families, and deepens the enjoyment and understanding of clinical development and behavioral medicine.... The purpose of this clinically relevant edition is to provide state-of-the-art information about behavioral and development medicine for clinical trainees and practitioners at all levels of training. The objectives are worthy and are met at a very high level by this text.... This is a state-of-the-art, detailed, clinically relevant, comprehensive book about pediatric developmental and behavioral medicine. The information provided is current, thorough, and clinically helpful for clinicians and trainees at all levels of training. This is highly recommended and should be available wherever developmental care is provided to pediatric and young adult patients, including clinics, offices, and hospital floors." Review by Joseph Hageman, MD (Evanston Hospital), ©Doody's Review Service, 2025. Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars!

"...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

Review of the Previous edition:
"Lovely and practical summary of child development" -NEJM 2006

"Unique in its blending of theory and practical advice and its sensitivity to families and their important role in the child’s development... In their 4th edition of Encounters with Children, Drs. Dixon and Stein have retained all that was wonderful about the previous editions while adding more than 150 pages of new material… This book continues to be my favourite child development book." -Dr. Linda S. Grossman, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 28(6):437, December 2007.

Dixon and Stein’s Encounters with Children,

Editors: Edited by Jenny Radesky, MD and Caroline Kistin, MD, MSc

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