All Outputs (14)

What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding? (2025)
Journal Article
Manning, C., Jennings, B., MacLennan, K., Rayat, R., Spiller, K., & Joseph, H. (2025). What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding?. Dyslexia, 31(2), e70004. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.70004

Targeting research towards areas that matter to dyslexic people and their families is essential for improving dyslexic people's lives. However, we do not know what the dyslexia community's research priorities are and whether they align with current r... Read More about What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding?.

Investigating the Efficacy of the Web-Based Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) Single-Session Interventions in Improving UK University Student Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Trial. (2025)
Journal Article
Lambert, J., Loades, M., Marshall, N., Higson-Sweeney, N., Chan, S., Mahmud, A., Pile, V., Maity, A., Adam, H., Sung, B., Luximon, M., MacLennan, K., Berry, C., & Chadwick, P. (2025). Investigating the Efficacy of the Web-Based Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) Single-Session Interventions in Improving UK University Student Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, Article e58164. https://doi.org/10.2196/58164

Background:
Mental health problems in university students are associated with many negative outcomes, yet there is a gap between need and timely access to help. Single-session interventions (SSIs) are designed to be scalable and accessible, deliveri... Read More about Investigating the Efficacy of the Web-Based Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) Single-Session Interventions in Improving UK University Student Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Trial..

A qualitative exploration of change processes relevant to compassion‐focused therapy that occurs when people view both soothing and non‐soothing images (2025)
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Allan, S., Morea, C., MacLennan, K., Schwannauer, M., McLaughlin, A. L., Weinstein, N., & Chan, S. W. Y. (2025). A qualitative exploration of change processes relevant to compassion‐focused therapy that occurs when people view both soothing and non‐soothing images. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 98(1), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12566

Objective: Using soothing imagery within psychotherapy may support people to undertake positive visualisation exercises. However, little is known about what processes happen when people view images they find to be soothing or non‐soothing. Design: Ex... Read More about A qualitative exploration of change processes relevant to compassion‐focused therapy that occurs when people view both soothing and non‐soothing images.

Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research (2024)
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Longhurst, P., Nimbley, E., Evans, E. H., MacLennan, K., Gillespie-Smith, K., & Duffy, F. (online). Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research. Eating Disorders, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2024.2416340

While diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Autistic population. Many commonly used measures for EDs... Read More about Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research.

Project Soothe: A pilot study evaluating the mood effects of soothing images collected using a citizen science approach (2024)
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MacLennan, K., Schwannauer, M., McLaughlin, A. L., Allan, S., Blackwell, S. E., Ashworth, F., & Chan, S. W. Y. (2024). Project Soothe: A pilot study evaluating the mood effects of soothing images collected using a citizen science approach. Wellcome Open Research, 8, Article 218. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18950.2

Background.
Mentally-generated soothing imagery is a therapeutic technique to support mental wellbeing, but some individuals may require support using externally presented stimuli. Project Soothe was launched to collect soothing images using a citiz... Read More about Project Soothe: A pilot study evaluating the mood effects of soothing images collected using a citizen science approach.

“It is a big spider web of things”: Sensory experiences of autistic adults in public spaces (2023)
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MacLennan, K., Woolley, C., @ 21andsensory, E., Heasman, B., Starns, J., George, B., & Manning, C. (2023). “It is a big spider web of things”: Sensory experiences of autistic adults in public spaces. Autism in Adulthood, 5(4), 411–422. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0024

Examining the latent structure and correlates of sensory reactivity in autism: a multi-site integrative data analysis by the autism sensory research consortium (2023)
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Williams, Z. J., Schaaf, R., Ausderau, K. K., Baranek, G. T., Barrett, D. J., Cascio, C. J., Dumont, R. L., Eyoh, E. E., Failla, M. D., Feldman, J. I., Foss-Feig, J. H., Green, H. L., Green, S. A., He, J. L., Kaplan-Kahn, E. A., Keçeli-Kaysılı, B., MacLennan, K., Mailloux, Z., Marco, E. J., Mash, L. E., …Woynaroski, T. G. (2023). Examining the latent structure and correlates of sensory reactivity in autism: a multi-site integrative data analysis by the autism sensory research consortium. Molecular Autism, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-023-00563-4

Sensory-inclusive spaces for autistic people: We need to build the evidence base (2023)
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Manning, C., Williams, G., & MacLennan, K. (2023). Sensory-inclusive spaces for autistic people: We need to build the evidence base. Autism, 27(6), 1511-1515. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231183541

In our own words: The complex sensory experiences of autistic adults (2022)
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MacLennan, K., O’Brien, S., & Tavassoli, T. (2022). In our own words: The complex sensory experiences of autistic adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(7), 3061-3075

The perceived casual relations between sensory reactivity differences and anxiety symptoms in autistic adults (2022)
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Verhulst, I., MacLennan, K., Haffey, A., & Tavassoli, T. (2022). The perceived casual relations between sensory reactivity differences and anxiety symptoms in autistic adults. Autism in Adulthood, 4(3), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0018

The predictive relationship between sensory reactivity and depressive symptoms in young autistic children with few to no words (2022)
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Rossow, T., MacLennan, K., & Tavassoli, T. (2022). The predictive relationship between sensory reactivity and depressive symptoms in young autistic children with few to no words. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2384–2394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05528-9

The relationship between sensory reactivity differences and mental health symptoms in preschool-age autistic children (2021)
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Rossow, T., MacLennan, K., & Tavassoli, T. (2021). The relationship between sensory reactivity differences and mental health symptoms in preschool-age autistic children. Autism Research, 14(8), 1645-1657

The relationship between sensory reactivity, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety subtypes in preschool-age autistic children (2021)
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MacLennan, K., Rossow, T., & Tavassoli, T. (2021). The relationship between sensory reactivity, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety subtypes in preschool-age autistic children. Autism, 25(8), 2305-2316

The relationship between sensory reactivity differences and anxiety subtypes in autistic children (2020)
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MacLennan, K., Roach, L., & Tavassoli, T. (2020). The relationship between sensory reactivity differences and anxiety subtypes in autistic children. Autism Research, 13(5), 785-795