Dr Gemma Ryan

Dr. Ryan's research interests center around evaluating psychological interventions, particularly those aimed at improving the health and well-being of individuals with developmental disorders, mental health conditions, and their families.
Key areas of interest include intervention design and evaluation, mental health, psychological therapies, and autism.
Recent projects I have worked on include leading a feasibility trial aimed at evaluating a novel parenting intervention for children with autism, conducting a process evaluation for the acceptability of a well-being intervention targeting parents of children recently diagnosed with autism, and collaborating on projects that aimed to provide evidence of counseling effectiveness for children and young people.

• Harvey, A., Spicer-Cain, H., Botting, N., Ryan, G., & Henry, L. (2023). Assessing ‘coherence ’in the spoken narrative accounts of autistic people: A systematic scoping review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 102, 102108.
• Ryan, G., Bhatti, K., Duncan, C., McGinnis, S., Elliott, R., & Cooper, M. (2021). Reliability and validity of an auditing tool for person‐centred psychotherapy and counselling for young people: The PCEPS‐YP. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.
• Cage, E., Jones, E., Ryan, G., Hughes, G., & Spanner, L. (2021). Student mental health and transitions into, through and out of university: student and staff perspectives. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 1-14.
• Broglia, E., Ryan, G., Williams, C., Fudge, M., Knowles, L., Turner, A., Dufour, G., Percy, A., Barkham, M. and SCORE Consortium, (2021). Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1-19.
• Cooper, M., Stafford, M. R., Saxon, D., Beecham, J., Bonin, E. M.,... & Ryan, G. (2021). Humanistic counselling plus pastoral care as usual versus pastoral care as usual for the treatment of psychological distress in adolescents in UK state schools (ETHOS): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
• Ryan, G. L. (2020, January). Counsellors in the NHS: undervalued, under pressure and underpaid. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, 20 (2), 12-13.
• Duncan, C., Ryan, G., Moller, N., & Davies, R. (2019) Who attends couples counseling in the UK and why? Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 46(2), 177-186.
• Moller, N., Ryan, G., Rollings J. & Barkham, M. (2019). The 2018 NHS Digital annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme: A brief commentary. BMC Psychiatry, 19(1), 252.
• Ryan, G., Duncan, C., & Moller, N. P. (2019). Counsellors in the National Health Service: A mixed‐method study of efficacy and satisfaction from the counsellor perspective. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(3), 338-348.

• Evaluating Psychological Interventions
• Autism Interventions
• Mental Health Interventions
• Student Mental Health
• Qualitative analysis

• MSc Psychology
• PhD Health and Psychological Research

MSc Lifestyle and Wellbeing

Autism Research Group at City, University of London

• Ryan, G., Cartwright, M., Bowler, D. M., Strom, E., Lind, S., and Howlin, P. (2023). Elaborative reminiscence with children and young people: a systematic review. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Ryan, G., Cartwright, M., Bowler, D. M., Strom, E., Lind, S., and Howlin, P. (2023). Testing the efficacy of training parents to use an elaborative reminiscence intervention for children with ASD. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Ryan, G., Bowler, D., Hutchins, T., Brien, A. (2023) Parent-Led, Reminiscence-Based Interventions to Improve Memory and Cognition in School-Aged Non-Intellectually Disabled Autistic Children. Panel presentation at International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium.
• Ryan, G., Cartwright, M., Bowler, D. M., Strom, E., Lind, S., and Howlin, P. (2022). Elaborative Reminiscence: A feasible and acceptable intervention for families of autistic children. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Conference, Austin, USA.
• Ryan, G., Cooper, M., Bhatti, K., McGinness, S., Elliott, R. (2019). Reliability and validity of the PCEPS-YP. Presented at the 5th Joint European & UK SPR Chapters Conference, Krakow, Poland.
• Ryan, G., & Duncan, C (2019). Counselling for young people and adults in the voluntary and community sector. Presented at A Three-Day Conference: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing, Stirling, UK.
• Ryan, G. (2018). Counsellors' Experiences of Working in the NHS: A Survey. Presented at the 25th British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Annual Research Conference, Belfast, UK.

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