by Lorna Parle | Dec 23, 2025
This qualitative study explored practising psychologists’ understandings and clinical experiences of demand avoidance and extreme demand avoidance (EDA) in children and adolescents. Through semi-structured interviews, psychologists described demand avoidance as a...
by Lorna Parle | Dec 23, 2025
This quantitative study examined the relationships between social camouflaging, autism traits, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) traits, victimisation, and offending in a general population sample of 220 adults. Findings showed that higher levels of camouflaging...
by Lorna Parle | Dec 19, 2025
In May 2023, the PDA Society launched the ‘Being Understood’ survey to help us gather up to date information about what life is like for the PDA community. PDA people (age 17 years or over) and parents, carers and partners of PDA people were invited to take part and...
by Lorna Parle | Dec 19, 2025
In May 2023, the PDA launched a community survey, to which 921 people responded. The report presents the survey findings focusing on the experiences of three groups of survey respondents-PDA children and young people, PDA adults and parents and carers. The aim of the...
by Lorna Parle | Dec 4, 2025
This qualitative study explored the experiences and support needs of ten mothers of autistic children with a PDA profile. Parents reported limited understanding of PDA among professionals, resulting in misinterpretation, stigma, and inadequate or even harmful support....
