Journal Articles

The educational experiences of autistic children with and without extreme demand avoidance behaviours
Clare Truman, Laura Crane, Patricia Howlin & Elizabeth Pellicano
International Journal of Inclusive Education
2021

Commentary: PDA – public display of affection or pathological demand avoidance? – reflections on O’Nions et al. (2014)
Christopher Gillberg
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
2014

Mapping the educational experiences of children with pathological demand avoidance
Emma Gore Langton & Norah Frederickson
Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
2016

Extreme (“pathological”) demand avoidance in autism: a general population study in the Faroe Islands
Christopher Gillberg, Carina Gillberg, Lucy Thompson, Rannva Biskupsto & Eva Billstedt
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2015

Parents’ experiences of professionals’ involvement for children with extreme demand avoidance
Emma Gore Langton & Norah Frederickson
International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
2018

Response: Anxiety and behaviour in and beyond ASD; does the idea of ‘PDA’ really help? – a response to Green (2020)
Victoria Grahame, Lisa Stuart, Emma Honey & Mark Freeston
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020

Response: Demand Avoidance Phenomena: a manifold issue? Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety as explanatory frameworks for extreme demand avoidance in children and adolescents – a response to Woods (2020)
Victoria Grahame, Lisa Stuart, Emma Honey & Mark Freeston
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020

Pathological Demand Avoidance: symptoms but not a syndrome
Jonathon Green, Michael Absoud, Victoria Grahame, Osman Malik, Emily Simonoff, Ann Le Couteur & Gillian Baird
The Lancet – Child & Adolescent Health
2018

Commentary: Anxiety and behaviour in and beyond ASD; does the idea of ‘PDA’ really help? – a commentary on Stuart et al. (2020)
Johnathon Green
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020

Pathological demand avoidance in children and adolescents: A systematic review
Arvid N Kildahl, Sissel B Helverschou, Anne L Rysstad, Elisabeth Wigaard, Jane MA Hellerud, Linn B Ludvigsen & Patricia Howlin
Autism
2021

Commentary: PDA – what’s in a name? Dimensions of difficulty in children reported to have an ASD and features of extreme/pathological demand avoidance: a commentary on O’Nions et al. (2017)
Osman Malik & Gillian Baird
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2018

Pathological demand avoidance: What and who are being pathologised and in whose interests?
Allison Moore
Global Studies of Childhood
2020

Pathological demand avoidance syndrome: a necessary distinction within the pervasive developmental disorders
E Newson, K Le Maréchal & C David
Archives of Disease in Childhood
2003

Extreme/’pathological’ demand avoidance: an overview
Elizabeth O’Nions & Judith Eaton
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
2020

Development of the ‘Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire’ (EDA-Q): preliminary observations on a trait measure for Pathological Demand Avoidance
Elizabeth O’Nions, Phil Christie, Judith Gould, Essi Viding & Francesca Happé
The Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry
2014

Pathological demand avoidance: Exploring the behavioural profile
Elizabeth O’Nions, Essi Viding, Corina U Greven, Angelica Ronald & Francesca Happé
Autism
2014

Identifying features of ‘pathological demand avoidance’ using the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO)
Elizabeth O’Nions, Judith Gould, Phil Christie, Christopher Gillberg, Essi Viding & Francesca Happé
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2016

Commentary: Conceptualising demand avoidance in an ASD context – a response to Osman Malik & Gillian Baird (2018)
Elizabeth O’Nions & Ilse Noens
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2018

Dimensions of difficulty in children reported to have an autism spectrum diagnosis and features of extreme/’pathological’ demand avoidance
Elizabeth O’Nions. Essi Viding, Caroline Floyd, Emma Quinlan, Connie Pidgeon, Judith Gould & Francesca Happé
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2018

Extreme Demand Avoidance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Refinement of a Caregiver-Report Measure
Elizabeth O’Nions, Francesca Happé, Essi Viding, Ilse Noens
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
2021

Editorial: Demand avoidance – pathological, extreme or oppositional?
Ann Ozsivadjian
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020

Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety as explanatory frameworks for extreme demand avoidance in children and adolescents
Lisa Stuart, Victoria Grahame, Emma Honey & Mark Freeston
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020

Pathological demand avoidance: my thoughts on looping effects and commodification of autism
Richard Woods
Disability & Society
2017

Commentary: Demand Avoidance Phenomena, a manifold issue? Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety as explanatory frameworks for extreme demand avoidance in children and adolescents – a commentary on Stuart et al. (2020)
Richard Woods
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
2020