This is a 23-minute introducing pertinent topics when one is conducting a thought experiment investigating non-autism “Pathological Demand Avoidance” (PDA). This video is part of a broader series of short videos briefly exploring our present thinking on PDA.
Video contains following topics:
PDA features continua diagram.
Examples over what PDA might be & predicted populations.
Context from PDA clinical descriptions.
Autism & co-occurring difficulties implications for PDA.
Examples of non-autistics in PDA literature.
Examples of PDA attributed as a standalone category.
Non-autism PDA Research Thought Experiment.
Link below to video Why “Pathological Demand Avoidance” (PDA) seems to be another autism scandal waiting to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtCiGxQMzRM
Link below to Views on PDA in 2023 playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUTk6NAXv_Zh7chpgjWgCWNJ00KB77epZ
Text for most of the slides is available in the link below:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1699538555763081390.html
Link below to the blog post discussing most of information on slide 12, which details how there are non-autistic children and young persons in initial validation study for the Extreme Demand Avoidance-Questionnaire (EDA):
https://rationaldemandavoidance.com/2021/04/25/pda-behaviour-intensity-and-prevalance-at-different-thresholds/
Link below to the book chapter which explains how PDA’s criteria has changed over time to become autism-like:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366877456_Rational_Pathological_Demand_Avoidance_As_a_mental_disorder_and_an_evolving_social_construct
Link below to the Extreme Demand Avoidance-Questionnaire (EDA-Q) initial validation paper:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1422617/1/O’Nions_EDAQ_accepted.pdf
Link below to the Extreme Demand Avoidance-Questionnaire for Adults (EDA-QA) initial validation paper:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-018-3722-7
Link below to the open access 11 Revised PDA Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders
(‘DISCO’):
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00787-015-0740-2/MediaObjects/787_2015_740_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
Link below to the open access semi-structured interview used in O’Nions et al (2018):
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1111%2Fcamh.12242&file=camh12242-sup-0001-Supinfo.pdf
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