Resources for Pathological Demand Avoidance

Chorpita B. F. Yim L. Moffitt C. Umemoto L. A. Francis S. E. (2000). Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: A revised child anxiety and depression scale. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(8), 835–855.

Comer J. S. Roy A. K. Furr J. M. Gotimer K. Beidas R. S. Dugas M. J. Kendall P. C. (2009). Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children—Parent-Report Form (IUSC) [Database record]. APA PsycTests. https://doi.org/10.1037/t00310-000

Egan V. Linenberg O. O’Nions E. (2019). The measurement of adult pathological demand avoidance traits. Journal of Autism and Development Disorders, 49, 481–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3722-7

March J. S. Parker J. D. A. (2004). The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). In Maruish M. E. (Ed.), The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment: Instruments for children and adolescents (3rd ed., pp. 39–62). Lawrence Erlbaum.

O’Nions E. Christie P. Gould J. Viding E. Happé F. (2014) Development of the Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire’ (EDA-Q): Preliminary observations on a trait measure for pathological demand avoidance. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(7), 758–768. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12149

O’Nions E. Happé F. Viding E. Noens I. (2021) Extreme demand avoidance in children with autism spectrum disorder: Refinement of a caregiver-report measure. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 5, 269–281. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41252-021-00203-z

Osmanağaoğlu N. Creswell C. Snuggs S. Stuijfzand C. Dodd H. F. (2021). Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children in a preadolescent sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 77, 102343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102343

Stuart L. Grahame V. Honey E. Freeston M. (2020). Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety as explanatory frameworks for extreme demand avoidance in children and adolescents. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 25(2), 59–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12336

Walkup J. Albano A. M. Piacentini J. C. Birmaher B. Compton S. Sherrill J. (2008). Cognitive behavioral therapy, sertraline, or a combination in childhood anxiety. The New England Journal of Medicine, 359, 2753–2766. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa0804633.