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Unit 4. Your free sample of the student book: preparation for assessment. (BTEC National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1 (with. ActiveBook),.
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Enquiries into Current Research in Health and Social Care
Part A will be issued to you a set period of time before the date of the Part B written assessment. Part A will consist of:
In the supervised time you are allocated for Part A, you will need to choose which of the two articles you will use as the basis of your own literature search relating to the issue explored in the article you have chosen. Once you have chosen the article, all your efforts in Part A should relate only to this one article. You will need to carry out your literature search, and allocate time towards the end of Part A to prepare the notes you will be allowed to take into the assessment room where you will sit the Part B written assessment. You will also need to prepare a formal list of the sources you have used to submit in your taskbook. You will work independently throughout Part A and will receive no feedback from your tutor.
The Part B controlled written assessment has two sections, one relating to each of the two articles. The full text of each article is included in the Part B paper.
Each section has questions that are contextualised to the relevant article, so check to make sure you go to the correct section for the article you have chosen. Questions may have sub-questions identified as a), b), c) and so on. It is unlikely that a question will have more than three sub-questions. The questions will require you to demonstrate that you:
About the test
Enquiries into Current Research in Health and Social Care Command word Defi nition – what it is asking you to do Describe Provide a thorough account, drawing on data from the article and the sources you have researched as relevant to the question asked in the assessment. Explain Provide possible reasons for the aspect of the issue required by the question. Discuss Consider the issue in detail, e.g. different lines of enquiry you have investigated and different arguments presented in your sources. Assess Consider the importance or signifi cance of the evidence you have researched in relation to the question asked, leading to a reasoned judgement on the evidence, e.g. its characteristics, quality, extent or other feature relevant to the question asked. Analyse Detailed, systematic and reasoned exploration of the aspect of the issue required by the question based on 2–3 lines of enquiry. Evaluate Make a judgement, based on all the relevant information or data and arguments you have explored in your answer to the question. Justify Provide logical reasons based on the evidence (data and arguments you have presented) to the examiner to demonstrate you understand the issue thoroughly.
Remember, responses that are mostly descriptive will only earn a few marks whereas responses that include discussion, analysis and evaluation, consider several lines of enquiry, and give the reasoning that you developed from the secondary sources you accessed, analysed and evaluated in your literature search are likely to earn more marks. Presenting well-structured answers and drawing conclusions will also benefi t your marks.
Part A
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Part B
Remember you will not lose marks for incorrect or irrelevant points in your extended answers, but you should aim to provide a significant response to each of the questions, making several points for each and in such a way that they are relevant responses to the question. Notes alone will not be sufficient to earn many marks. With so many marks allocated to each of a small number of questions, failing to supply a response, or only providing a weak response to one of the questions will very seriously affect the total number of marks you will earn for this unit, even if you earn good marks on the other questions.
UNIT 4
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This means that mental health problems affect the economy and the article says that in 2009/10 mental health problems was estimated to cost £105 billion in a year. The article states that a higher proportion of prisoners are affected by mental health problems than in the general population. This could be because people develop mental health problems while in prison or that mental health problems are more likely to lead to behaviours that result in being sent to prison. Drug addiction is a major problem in prisons and is generally known to be linked to mental health problems. Mental health is therefore a serious problem for individuals and for the country. The Mental Health Foundation claims that relationships people have with each other are important for their mental health and they say that anything which helps people to have a social life rather than live in isolation is good. Having a job helps because it means people have to interact with their workmates and the article says that more people with mental health problems are now getting jobs. The article reports that support for people with common mental health problems has improved since 2010 but that more people with mental health problems now need hospital residential care which usually means they have severe mental health problems. Recent news relating to Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust shows that service users may die because support is inadequate. However, the article says that one of the problems in assessing the quality of services for those with mental health problems is that there is insufficient information available about the services in some areas of the country. This is especially the case for services for children and young people and sometimes they are admitted to hospital a long distance from their homes which adds to their problems. Psychological therapies and antidepressants can be prescribed to help those with common mental health problems and the article says there are targets for 15 per cent to start such treatments each year. The target is for therapy to start within 28 days of being referred but this is not being achieved for everyone. Overall, care services for people with mental health problems need to be both improved and expanded to cope with the increasing number of people needing the services and to ensure that the quality of the services improves. More information about services so the best practices could be identifi ed to improve other provision would also help as would more data about the effectiveness of different treatments.
This is a better answer, justifying Band 3 marks. The response addresses the question and includes more detailed information, with specific examples, and also attempts to make links between different lines of enquiry. A reasonably thorough understanding of the issues around mental health is demonstrated and several sources from the literature search are referred to appropriately, and link to the content of the article. Some unsubstantiated claims are made such as regarding drug addiction and mental health, but overall there is good evidence of an effective literature search. Some recommendations are made. Points might be presented more systematically, and analysis and evaluative comments could be more evident to achieve Band 4 marks.