Demand Avoidance and Autonomy Questionnaire

DAAQ

Created by At Peace Parents Founder and CEO Casey Ehrlich, PhD, and researchers at the University of Michigan medical school and Northwestern University, the Demand Avoidance and Autonomy Questionnaire (DAAQ) is the first measure of Pathological Demand Avoidance / Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (PDA) using rigorous, contemporary measurement development standards.

It also uniquely assesses how demand avoidance affects fulfillment of basic needs - hygiene, eating, sleeping and toileting - going beyond broad behavioral descriptors.

While DAAQ scores show strong preliminary psychometric properties, the questionnaire is recommend for use as a research screening/phenotyping tool rather than a diagnostic instrument.

Parents

Use the online DAAQ to better understand your child and to share the results with their clinician, therapist or school.