Encounters with children
Subtitle: pediatric behavior and development
By: Suzanne D. Dixon, Martin T. Stein.
Contributors: Stein, Martin T.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Mosby Elsevier
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 831
ISBN-13: 9780323029155
Subjects: Child development.; Child development -- Testing.; Behavioral assessment of children.; Adolescence.; Child Development.; Adolescent Behavior.; Adolescent.; Child Behavior.; Growth.; Ontwikkelingsstadia.; Observatie.; Pasgeborenen.; Kinderen.; Adolescenten.; Enfants -- Développement.; Enfants -- Développement -- Tests.; Analyse comportementale des enfants.; Adolescence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-809).
Table of contents: value: Perspectives on child development in child health care / Suzanne D. Dixon and Martin T. Stein; value: Understanding children: theories, concepts and insights / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Cultural dimensions in child care / Lori Taylor, Lyndia Willes-Jacobo and Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Developmentally based office: setting the stage for enhanced practice / Martin T. Stein; value: Use of drawing by children at health encounters / John B. Welsh, Susan L. Instone and Martin T. Stein; value: The prenatal visit: making an alliance with the family / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: The newborn: ready to get going / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Neonatal intensive care units: special issues for the at-risk infant and family / Suzanne D. Dixon and Yvonne E. Vaucher; value: First days at home: making a place in the family / Suzanne D. Dison and Martin T. Stein; value: One to two months: getting on track / Martin T. Stein; value: Three to four months: having fun with the picture book baby / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Six months: reaching out / Suzanne D. Dixon and Michael J. Hennessy; value: Eight to nine months: exploring and clinging / Maria Trozzi and Suzanne D. Dixon; value: One year: one giant step forward / Suzanne D. Dixon and Michael J. Hennessy; value: 15 to 18 months: declaring independence and pushing the limits / Maria Trozzi and Martin T. Stein; value: Two years: language leaps / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Three years: emergence of magic / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Four years: clearer sense of self / Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Five years: opening the school door / Martin T. Stein; value: Six to seven years: reading, relationships and playing by the rules / Martin T. Stein; value: Seven to ten years: the world of middle childhood / Robert David Wells and Martin T. Stein; value: Eleven to fourteen years: early adolescence - age of rapid changes / Jennifer Maehr and Marianne E. Felice; value: Fifteen to seventeen years: mid-adolescence-redefining self / Jennifer Maehr and Marianne E. Felice; value: Seventeen to twenty-one years: transition to adulthood / Lawrence S. Friedman; value: Special families / Robert David Wells and Martin T. Stein; value: Encounters with illness: coping and growing / Martin T. Stein; value: Stressful events: separation, loss, violence and death / Maria Trozzi and Suzanne D. Dixon; value: Resources for families: an annotated bibliography / Martin T. Stein and Suzanne D. Dixon.