PDA: Collaborating for Success

What You’ll Learn & How It Applies to Your Practice This presentation explores Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) as a behavioral response pattern and highlights collaborative, evidence-based strategies to support learners with a PDA profile. Participants will review key characteristics of PDA, reflect on personal bias, and identify proactive interventions that increase positive outcomes. The session emphasizes competence, collaboration, and practical application in educational and behavioral settings.

1. 1Learning Objectives
2. 21.06 Maintaining Competence
3. 3Review of PDA presentation as a response class
4. 42.14 Selecting, designing and implementing behavior change procedures
5. 5Will identify evidence based behavioral interventions and explicit changes to increase probability of successful outcomes for learners with PDA profile
6. 61.10 Personal Bias and Challenge
7. 7Will demonstrate reflective practice with regard to personal bias or challenge when encountering PDA behavior response and generate collaborative and proactive support interventions for self, colleagues and stakeholders