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- Connections Behavior Planning and Intervention welcomes Amelia Bowler, BCBA, for an online webinar on using Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA).
Abstract:
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a hot topic among parents and teachers, but without consensus in the medical community or diagnostic criteria, clinicians are often left asking questions like:
- Is Pathological Demand Avoidance a valid and useful clinical term?
Are there practices and treatment goals I should learn or avoid, with learners identified as PDA?
While the research literature isn’t yet definitive in the answer to these questions, we can find some clues about how to best serve learners who present this way. Demand avoidance is a fascinating and challenging way to think about functions of behaviour, and a call to listen closely to the voices of neurodivergent people.
About the Presenter:
Amelia Bowler is a behaviour consultant, a Canadian, an artist, and a neurodivergent person. She has written two books on the topic of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. When Amelia is not busy advocating for trauma-informed treatment and inclusion for people with disabilities, she is usually to be found cultivating and protecting native plants in a nearby ravine.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will describe the origins and history of the Pervasive Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile.
- Participants will identify common struggles and behaviours associated with PDA (for both the learner and the teacher).
- Participants will analyze potential behaviour chains and contingencies that can lead to demand avoidance.
CEU’s included, and Cost to Attend:
- 2 Learning BACB CEU’s
$39.99 (CEU’s included in price)- $36.00 – Early Registration Discount
For questions, challenges with registration, or any other needed information, please contact Dusty, Director of Continuing Education and ACE Coordinator for CBPI, LLC, at continuingeducation@connections-behavior.com.
Connections Behavior Planning & Intervention, LLC, is a BACB-Approved ACE Provider (Provider # OP-17-2781). The BACB does not directly sponsor or endorse this event, its speakers, or its content.
