Introduction to Demand Avoidance

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Introduction to Demand Avoidance

SKU: 2540
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Regular price $25.00
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Course Description

This session explores demand avoidance as a natural, anxiety-driven response rather than a behavioural choice. It examines how anyone can express demand avoidance at times in life, and what to do if it's become more of a persistent struggle. This means exploring what counts as a demand, and why they can feel overwhelming at various life stages.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to: 

  • Define demand avoidance and explain how it differs from non-compliance, defiance, or deliberate refusal.
  • Identify internal and external demands, including sensory, emotional, and social demands, that contribute to demand avoidance in autistic people.
  • Apply low-arousal, collaborative strategies to reduce demand perception and support autonomy and regulation.

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Registration

  • Online ONLY for 1 learner -- Access to Online Course for 365 Days/1 Year (1.5-hour CE course, downloadable handout, certificate of completion)

Timed Agenda

  • Introduction: 1 minute (welcome, presenter background, ground rules)
  • What Are Demands?: 1 minute (types of demands, demand overload, decision fatigue)
  • Demand Avoidance as a Natural Trait: 5 minutes (demand avoidance as a natural response, stress factors, pathological demand avoidance)
  • Growing Up Different: 5 minutes (challenges autistic people face, trauma, micro-corrections, masking)
  • Executive Function and Learning Barriers: 2 minutes (task difficulty, reasonable adjustments, learning styles)
  • Window of Tolerance: 1 minute (narrow tolerance windows, sensory overload, sleep/eating issues)
  • PDA Strategies: 6 minutes (PDA Panda framework, picking battles, enabling choice, anxiety management)
  • Reducing Perception of Demands: 2 minutes (phrasing changes, depersonalizing, distraction, role play)
  • Changing Your Mindset: 2 minutes (reframing behavior)
  • Other Contributing Factors: 1 minute (depression, trauma, physical health conditions)
  • Conclusion and Resources: 1 minute (YouTube channel, website, additional videos)

     

    TOTAL: 27 minutes


     

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