Pathological Demand Avoidance Half Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people. The course aims to increase the knowledge and awareness of practitioners supporting people with PDA and covers key topics such as definitions of PDA, recognition of signs and symptoms. Content assists practitioners to manage behaviours that challenge and respond appropriately using a person-centred approach when children and young people are in crisis. Trainers facilitate activities and discussions that help practitioners develop tailored, flexible frameworks of helpful approaches when working collaboratively and supporting people with PDA. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• To increase knowledge and awareness of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
• Enable people to recognise the symptoms of PDA in children
• To help you to manage behaviours that can challenge
• To respond appropriately when a person is in crisis
• To help develop a tailored, flexible framework of helpful approaches for working with and supporting PDA children