questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to standardise the use of Pathological Demand Avoidance for autism diagnosis.
answerText: Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is most often understood as a characteristic of, or observed in, some autistic people, but professional consensus on its status is still required. PDA is not a recognised and stand-alone diagnosis within the Diagnostic ...
heading: Autism: Diagnosis