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  Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals

  Author: Phil Christie, Margaret Duncan, Ruth Fidler, and Zara Healy

  Publishing Info: Paperback 208 pages / October 2011

  Tags: anxiety, Pathological Demand Avoidance, PDA, social manipulation.

  Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognised as part of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which originates from an anxiety-driven need to be in control.

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