Sewanu Awhangansi

Biographic Data

ID4451828
NAMESewanu Awhangansi
GIVEN NAMESSewanu
FAMILY NAMEAwhangansi
SIGNATUREAWHANGANSI S
AFFILIATIONSLeicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
ORCID0000-0002-1972-3132
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Implementing a brief mentalisation-based intervention for foster carers and adoptive parents in a child and adolescent mental health service setting

    Open AccessSewanu Awhangansi, Michael Lewis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice2026

    Examining the professional experiences of mental health and social care practitioners in real-world settings contributes to understanding best practice in intervention approaches designed to support foster carers and adoptive parents. Focusing on these experiences helps apprehend contextual considerations relating to intervention delivery, as well as mechanisms of intervention therapeutic action. Contributing to such work, this article reports fi…

  • Investigating the Applicability of the Safer‐YCL Care Bundle for Transitions From CAMHS Crisis and Liaison Services

    Open AccessJames Roe, N E Jones et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

    BACKGROUND: Crisis and Liaison teams in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) offer intensive, short-term support to young people experiencing mental health crisis in the community (Crisis) or admitted to acute hospitals (Liaison). There is no evidence-based model for how these teams operate. The SAFER care bundle, designed to improve discharges from acute hospitals, has been adapted for use in mental health inpatient discharges for…

  • Consultation to Adoptive Parents and Adoption Professionals in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Sewanu Awhangansi, Philip John Archard et al.ARTICLEPractice2024References: 8

    The mental health vulnerability of children and young people in foster and adoptive families is well recognised, which has led to the development of dedicated posts and care pathways in mental health care provision. This article reports on learning resulting from local quality improvement work in a single child and adolescent mental health service team. This work was concerned with the ‘front door’ of access to care for these groups and specifica…

  • Developing a group-based psychoeducation intervention for adoptive parents and foster carers in a specialist child and adolescent mental health service setting

    Michael Lewis, Louisa Briggs Deardon et al.ARTICLEPractice2024References: 2

    Children and young people in foster and adoptive families are considered more vulnerable to a high level of mental health need when compared to peers who are not care-experienced or adopted. Acceptance of this view amongst clinical providers and policy makers has necessitated the development of specialist provision and dedicated care pathways within child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHSs). In this provision, practitioner-initiated qu…

  • Perspective on clinical high-risk for psychosis in Africa

    Open AccessSewanu Awhangansi, Adeniran Okewole et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    Clinical High Risk for Psychosis has evolved in recent years as a conceptual and clinical entity, representing a shift in focus from the syndromal psychosis state to a recognition of the pre-psychotic state as a period of potential preventive intervention. Much existing evidence has been generated from well-resourced countries, with a more limited body of literature available from Africa and other Majority World countries. Against a backdrop of p…

  • Remote and Digitally Delivered Mental Health Support for Care-Experienced Young People

    Philip John Archard, Sewanu Awhangansi et al.ARTICLEPractice2023References: 2

    In a recent contribution to this journal, Cummings (2023) reports findings from a preliminary qualitative study of practitioner viewpoints regarding digitally delivered mental health support to care-experienced young people. Cummings’ study highlights the need to engage with professional experiences of using digital methods with this group, both during and outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. A response to - and commentary on – Cummings’ contributio…

  • Parent, carer and professional views of specialist child and adolescent mental health care during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessPhilip John Archard, Emma L Giles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children s Services2022References: 7

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report findings from a service evaluation undertaken within a single specialist child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) team. The team works closely with local authority children’s services to serve specific populations recognised as experiencing higher levels of mental health need, including children living in alternative care and with adoptive families. The evaluation sought to better understan…