Oppositional behavior

What’s inside this article: An overview of Pathological Demand Avoidance, including what it is, the signs of PDA, and how it differs from ODD. Plus, effective behavior management strategies for individuals with pathological demand avoidance. Pathological Demand Avoidance is a term first used by child psychologist Elizabeth Newson in the 1980s. She proposed that pathological …

Imagine you just received a phone call from your child’s principal asking you to pick them up from school due to their behavior (for the umpteenth time this year). So, you drive over there to take them home. In the car when you try to talk about what happened, your child is rude and talks …