Overview
Assessment Guidance
Portfolio of evidence
Unit Learning Outcomes
1
Understand units strengths and guidelines on alcohol consumption.
Assessment Criteria
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1.1
Explain how unit strengths for alcohol are calculated.
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1.2
Calculate the unit strengths of different common alcoholic drinks.
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1.3
Summarise guidelines on keeping health risks from alcohol to a low level.
2
Understand the physical, mental, social and emotional effects of alcohol.
Assessment Criteria
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2.1
Explain the short and long term effects alcohol can have on the body.
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2.2
Explain the physical differences between men and woman that affect their ability to tolerate alcohol.
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2.3
Evaluate the negative and positive effects of alcohol on mental health.
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2.4
Explain the social and emotional harm that can result from excessive drinking.
3
Understand people's use of alcohol.
Assessment Criteria
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3.1
Explain the different reasons, both explicit and underlying, why people drink alcohol.
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3.2
Explain the different between appropriate and inappropriate use of alcohol.
4
Understand the assumptions made about people who drink alcohol excessively.
Assessment Criteria
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4.1
Explain the different assumptions made about people who drink excessively.
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4.2
Explain the impact of different people's assumptions on the lives of people who drink excessively.