An Experience Sensitive Approach to Care With and for Autistic Children and Young People in Clinical Services

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McGreevy, E., Quinn, A., Law, R., Botha, M., Evans, M., Rose, K., Moyse, R., Boyens, T., Matejko, M., & Pavlopoulou, G. (2024). An Experience Sensitive Approach to Care With and for Autistic Children and Young People in Clinical Services. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 66(1), 107-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241232442

Publication date: 15 Mar 2024 Added to AutiHub: 5 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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10
Publication authors identified as autistic
4 / 10 (40.0%)
  1. Elaine McGreevy
  2. Alexis Quinn *
  3. Roslyn Law
  4. Monique Botha *
  5. Mairi Evans
  1. Kieran Rose *
  2. R. Moyse *
  3. Tiegan Boyens
  4. Maciej Matejko
  5. Georgia Pavlopoulou

Abstract

Many support schemes in current autism clinical services for children and young people are based on notions of neuro-normativity with a behavioral emphasis. Such neuro-disorder approaches gradually undermine a person, restrain authentic self-expression, and fail to address the impact of a hostile world on autistic well-being. Furthermore, such approaches obscure attention from a fundamental challenge to conceptualize an alternative humanistic informed framework of care for staff working with diagnosed or undiagnosed autistic children and young people. In this article, we offer an appreciation of the lifeworld-led model of care by Todres et al. We discuss how mental health practitioners can adopt an experience-sensitive framework of health care by incorporating the eight dimensions of care into practice. This neuroinclusive approach creates a culture of respect, honors the sovereignty of the person, prioritizes personalization of care based on collaborative decision-making, and enables practitioners to support well-being from an existential, humanistic view, grounded in acceptance of autistic diversity of being. Without a fundamental shift toward such neurodivergence-affirming support with practitioners being willing to transform their understanding, real progress cannot happen to prevent poor mental health outcomes for autistic people across the lifespan. This shift is needed to change practice across research, clinical, and educational contexts.

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60
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42
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18
13 / 60 (21.7%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
8 / 60 (13.3%)
References with detected author names
55 / 60 (91.7%)
Without detected author names
5
Without a structured title
7
Without a stable identifier
16
References with raw author names still to review
4
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0
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
176
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176
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0
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0
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5
112 / 176 (63.6%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 64 / 176 (36.4%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
60 / 176 (34.1%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 60 / 112 (53.6%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 51 / 162 (31.5%).
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