However, children with PDA display a resistance to everyday demands that goes dramatically beyond typical behavior, until it interferes with their everyday lives, and their resistance is obsessive and extreme. All children are uncooperative from time to time, and this may be amplified during some developmental phases (e.g., the so-called "terrible twos"). It encompasses things that seem like demands, such as being told to do homework now, but it also includes everything from someone silently offering to shake hands to knowing that catching the bus requires leaving home in time to walk to the bus stop. For the purposes of PDA, a demand is social interaction or similar opportunity to cooperate, very broadly understood. The primary sign is an atypical resistance to normal, everyday social demands. In PDA, silently offering something can be perceived as a demand. Ĭhristopher Gillberg wrote in 2014 that “Experienced clinicians throughout child psychiatry, child neurology and paediatrics testify to its existence and the very major problems encountered when it comes to intervention and treatment.” Signs Not all demands involve being ordered to do a task. Demand avoidance is listed as a ‘sign or symptom of ASD’ (Appendix 3). NICE guidance also expects an ‘ASD’ diagnosis be accompanied by a diagnostic assessment, providing a profile of key strengths and difficulties. In 2011, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said that PDA has been proposed as part of the autism spectrum but did not include further discussion within the guideline. However, DSM-5 also moved from sub-type classification to the use of ‘Autistic Spectrum Disorder’, which allows for different behavioural profiles to be described. To be recognized, a sufficient amount of consensus and clinical history needs to be present, and as a newly proposed condition, PDA had not met the standard of evidence required at the time of recent revisions.
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PDA is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The term was proposed in 1980 by the UK child psychologist Elizabeth Ann Newson. Those who propose PDA should be a separate diagnosis from classic autism spectrum disorders observed children with PDA to be more sociable, to have better social skills and social understanding than children with classic autism, to use apparently socially manipulative and shocking behaviour, to be more interested in people than objects, to be more comfortable with pretend play, and to be more imaginative. Alternatively, they may instead be diagnosed with ODD.
Īlthough PDA has its own traits that are separate from autism, people with PDA generally meet the diagnostic criteria by having significant difficulties in social interaction and communication. Any expectation, even familiar, routine activities for highly desired activities, such as getting ready to leave home to visit a playground, can trigger avoidant behavior, and if the demand cannot be avoided, a panic attack or a meltdown may ensue. Pathological demand avoidance ( PDA) or extreme demand avoidance ( EDA) is a proposed disorder and sub-type of autism spectrum disorder, defined by characteristics such as a greater than typical refusal to comply with requests or expectations and extreme efforts to avoid the social demand.
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