Pathological Demand Avoidance Workbook: Guided Strategies for Living and Learning with PDA Paperback – 27 Feb. 2024

I purchased this workbook as a mother of a child with very severe PDA. However, as a therapist I'm always looking for materials to use with clients. I also taught special education for 8 years and have extensive experience working with creating my own materials for students as well as finding things to offer to parents.First of all, this is not really a workbook, nor does it have any "guided strategies for living or learning with PDA", as the title suggests. This workbook consists of nine fillable pages that are repeated over and over again. There is nothing in here that offers any significant guidance or real strategies. It's more of a "log" or diary of sorts.And when it comes to it being a log or tracker, I think that the materials are rather poorly done. First of all, as a person that has a BA in graphic design, I find the small formatting errors and etc to be really annoying. There are also some grammar errors.Second, I find this workbook to be culturally inappropriate, as it talks about mother and father or mom and dad throughout the entire book. Not all families consist of a mother and a father. I also don't care for the wording about the in about being a "blessed child" or a "compatibility family = an eternal love". I'm sure it's coming from a good place, but some of those words have a subtle religious overtone that I don't care for in a supposed workbook for behavioral help.I also find a material to be inappropriate lexile or language ability-wise. It is not written for a child to use. For example, "executing demands in orders", or "implementation of additional demands", or " good planning, organization, and execution of tasks". Those are under a section called "Evaluation" . Definitely not worded for a child to be using. I'm not saying that there aren't any children that know those words, I'm saying that in general it's not written for children or pre-teens to work with.I also find some of the worksheets in here to be a little weird, like the "weekly goal" where they write a goal that they want to achieve and action steps for it, when there's no guidance for the child or parents about what is an appropriate goal or what are good action steps for a child with PDA to write in there.Then there is an entire worksheet dedicated to "healthy food and a strong mind", with some ratings and notes about it. I'm not saying that's an awful worksheet to have, I'm just not sure if that's really going to be in my top nine things in an entire workbook, working with PDA.Another sheet contains this "facing your feelings" where the kids face self-portrait spot is a thick line and looks like a Charlie Brown outline, and then there's the mom's face outline which is "shapely" and attractive and uses thin lines. Again, I don't really like how this is all about mother/mom, versus another family member or something else that is more culturally appropriate for the wide variety of different family types that exist. Also, why isn't there a Dad's face in there too? If you're going to have a mom and dad focused book?I wish I'd looked at this more carefully before my return window closed. I'm not sure if I am going to donate it or not, as the quality and strangeness in it is just weird enough I may consider tossing it completely. =(Actually, I just realized that I think this workbook might even be written by AI, and not by a person. At the back of the book it says made in the United States, Troutdale Oregon, with a print date of the date I ordered the book. I don't know, maybe I'm just making that up, but I think the whole thing is really weird. When I tried to look up the author on the Amazon page it just wouldn't go through.And when I reread the description on this book in the Amazon profile of it, I realized that it just reads a little bit strange and doesn't seem totally applicable to what PDA really is.

I wasn’t sure exactly what this was but it’s basically a journal to keep track of how your day was, triggers etc. my son isn’t old enough to use yet but I’m keeping for when he’s older.