Treating trauma, not autism: a critical response to Te Hennepe et al. (2026)

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Spicer, L., Camin, M., Botha, M., Pavlopoulou, G., Kumar-Jonson, M., Walker, N., & Kapp, S. (2026). Treating trauma, not autism: a critical response to Te Hennepe et al. (2026). European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 17(1), Article 2739785. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2026.2739785

Publication date: 21 Oct 2026 Added to AutiHub: 23 Oct 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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7
Publication authors identified as autistic
6 / 7 (85.7%)
  1. Liam Spicer *
  2. Marie Camin *
  3. Monique Botha *
  4. Georgia Pavlopoulou
  1. Mish Kumar-Jonson *
  2. Nick Walker *
  3. Steven Kapp *

Abstract

We read with interest this pre–post study by Te Hennepe et al. (2026), reporting that intensive trauma-focused treatment was associated with large, comparable reductions in PTSD symptoms in patient...

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31
With a DOI
29
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
2
15 / 31 (48.4%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
0 / 31 (0.0%)
References with detected author names
31 / 31 (100.0%)
Without detected author names
0
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0
Without a stable identifier
2
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0
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0
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
199
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199
From validated raw bibliography text
0
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0
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0
154 / 199 (77.4%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 45 / 199 (22.6%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
53 / 199 (26.6%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 53 / 154 (34.4%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 43 / 181 (23.8%).
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