Opinion: What happened to oppositional defiant disorder?
“Can you check my child for PDA?” the mother asked me on the telephone about two years ago. Though I had been a behavioral/developmental pediatrician for more than four decades, the only PDA acronym I could recall came from my days as a general…
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Published1 d ago (Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:30:00 GMT)
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AuthorLawrence Diller