Avoidance
What Does PDA Mean? Pathological Demand Avoidance Explained
What Does PDA mean? As parents or caregivers to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), navigating the vast and complex landscape of diagnoses and syndromes possibly associated with your child’s condition can be difficult. Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a relatively new term in the field of developmental disorders, and the PDA meaning can be confusing […]
Understanding Emotional Avoidance and Learning to Tolerate Uncomfortable Feelings
Fear, grief, shame, embarrassment, and other uncomfortable emotions are not pleasant. From time to time it is quite normal to avoid a situation, person, place, or thing that might trigger an undesirable emotion, but when it interferes with your daily functioning and/or becomes a problematic recurring issue, it is clinically defined as emotional avoidance. […]