Jessica Kingsley Publishers Me and My PDA: A Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance for Young People

A really good, practical guide to PDA. Useful for family members to understand the condition. Unfortunately, we can’t get our granddaughter to read it , as, you’ve guessed it, she has PDA.

My daughter (9) has PDA. Even she likes this books! We first found it at the library (much to our surprise!), but because it has great interactive features (questions to answer, blanks for drawing, making lists, like a journal), we opted to buy our own copy. It’s great! The author really understands PDA.

Kiddo (9) feels so understood with this book, it speaks to him

Young person with PDA - Surprisingly easy and fun to do. Not much pressure from the book. Really well written and explained. A lot of the information and explanations matched my ideas of PDA and how it affects me. The boxes made it easy for me to express how my PDA affects me. I already understand my PDA very well, but I think this book would really help those who don't yet understand their PDA very well. It is also extremely helpful to show this book to someone else for them to understand me better.Parent - Me and My PDA contains everything needed for the young person and their support team to begin developing a robust 'individually tailored' framework of strategies. With beautiful illustrations and carefully worded text, which share the experiences of other young people - accompanied by further suggestions and ideas for contemplation, the young person can feel safe to explore their own difficulties, confusions, worries and fears. The book provides a warm, inviting and non judgemental space where the young person is invited to share key information about themselves via the easy to follow worksheets. In a nutshell, this book may just be the golden ticket in facilitating the young person to support us, so that we can better support them.

Great for children with PDA. Helping them have an insight to their thoughts and feelings and how other people can help them.