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CCEA A-Level Health and Social Care 0003
Promoting Quality Care
Topic overviewThe values of care and their impact on service usersIndividual rights and choicesAnti-discriminatory practiceRespect, dignity and confidentialityChildren's rights and special educational needs legislationHuman rights and safeguarding legislationDisability discrimination legislationMental health legislation and capacityHealth and safety legislation, COSHH and RIDDORPolicies that promote quality carePoor practice and its impact on people
Communication in Health, Social Care and Early Years Settings
Topic overviewThe range of people staff communicate withVerbal communicationNon-verbal communication and body languageWritten and electronic communicationThe purposes of communication in care settingsConfidentiality and privacy in communicationPhysical and emotional factors that support communicationPractitioners' communication skillsBarriers arising from sensory impairment, illness and disabilityBarriers arising from mental health, language and cultureOvercoming barriers to communicationTeam communication and reflecting on your own practice
Health and Well-Being
Topic overviewConcepts of health, ill-health and diseaseMental health, mental illness and psychological well-beingThe needs of service users and how settings meet themThe effects of ill-health on education, employment, income and relationshipsSocio-economic factors affecting health and well-beingInherited conditions: cystic fibrosis and Huntington's diseaseConditions associated with ageing: osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetesEnvironmental factors: location, pollution and occupational hazardsBehavioural factors: exercise, diet, smoking, alcohol and drug useApproaches to health promotion and personal responsibilityStatutory services and the World Health OrganisationVoluntary, private and commercial providersPrejudice, discrimination and stereotypingAnti-discriminatory practice and equality law in Northern Ireland
Safeguarding Children
Topic overviewPhysical development from one to eight yearsIntellectual and language development from one to eight yearsEmotional and social development from one to eight yearsPromoting development through activities and interactionPiaget and Vygotsky in early years practiceSkinner and Bandura: managing behaviour and modellingErikson and Bowlby: attachment, identity and settling inTypes of abuseIndicators of abuse in childrenSafeguarding responsibilities and the setting's policiesFactors that increase the risk of child abuse
Adult Service Users
Topic overviewKey concepts in work with adults: need, protection, disability, empowerment and person-centred careOlder people: needs and how they are metAdults with physical disabilities: needs and how they are metAdults with learning disabilities: needs and how they are metAdults living with mental ill health: needs and how they are metHealth practitioners working with adult service usersSocial care practitioners and advocacyReablement and the care planning cycleThe Bengoa Report and a new model of health and social careConfidentiality, safeguarding adults and whistle-blowing policiesStatutory, private and voluntary provision and how it is fundedInformal carers and the Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
Holistic Therapies
Topic overviewThe holistic approach and safe practiceAcupunctureAromatherapyHerbalismReflexologyPilates and kinesiologyMedical approaches: medication, surgery and physiotherapyManaging asthma, high blood pressure and arthritisManaging insomnia, migraine, back pain, depression and irritable bowel syndromeComparing holistic therapies and medical treatmentsCurrent trends, evidence and holistic therapies in care settings
Understanding the Physiology of Health and Illness
Topic overviewThe animal cell and its organellesCell specialisation and the four tissue typesThe organisation of the nervous systemThe major areas of the brainNeurones, the reflex arc and the synapseMultiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and strokeThe endocrine glands and their hormonesType 1 and type 2 diabetesThe digestive system and how food is broken downPancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver and stomach ulcersThe urinary system and the kidney nephronRenal failure, incontinence and dehydrationLiving with a physiological disorder
Applied Research
Topic overviewChoosing a research topic and writing a rationaleResearch objectives and the hypothesisSearching the literature and using secondary sourcesHarvard referencing and citing sourcesQuestionnaires as a research toolInterviews and interview schedulesObservation and observation chartsValidity and reliability in research designSampling techniques and representativenessEthics in research with people who use servicesCollating and presenting quantitative dataAnalysing results and drawing conclusionsEvaluating the methodology and recommending improvements
Body Systems and Physiological Disorders
Topic overviewThe heart and the cardiac cycleBlood, blood vessels and the double circulationControl of heart rate and blood pressureThe respiratory system, ventilation and gas exchangeBehaviour that protects the heart and lungsNormal ranges for pulse and breathing rates, and causes of deviationMonitoring pulse and breathing safely before and after exercisePresenting and analysing monitoring resultsCoronary heart disease, asthma and other physiological disordersDiagnostic techniques and what each one showsTreatments, care pathways, practitioners and support servicesThe effects of a physiological disorder on everyday life
Providing Services
Topic overviewThe origins of the welfare stateLegislation shaping service provision in Northern IrelandSafeguarding, mental health and disability legislationPolicies in health and social care settingsDemographic trends and their effect on servicesStatutory, private, voluntary and informal providersHow the providers are fundedIntegration, community care and evaluating provisionMeeting physical, intellectual, emotional and social needsAccessing services and routes of referralBarriers to access and how they are overcomeThe roles and specialisms of practitionersInterdisciplinary team workingCodes of practice, regulation and quality assurance
Public Health and Health Promotion
Topic overviewThe concept of public healthPublic health issues in the United KingdomHow public health issues are addressed in Northern IrelandLegislation, taxation and the law as public health toolsThe Public Health Agency and its campaignsApproaches to health promotionEvaluating a health promotion campaignChoosing a topic, an aim and a target groupDelivery methods and materialsDrawing up and justifying the planDesigning tools to evaluate the activityCarrying out and evaluating the activity
Supporting the Family
Topic overviewFamily structures since the Second World WarWhy family structures have changedHow families meet physical and intellectual needsHow families meet emotional and social needsHealth and social care services a family may needStatutory services and how they support familiesThe private sector and informal careVoluntary organisations supporting familiesEffects on families of accessing servicesDomestic violence, child abuse and addictionPoverty, mental illness and bereavement in familiesPoor parenting, behavioural problems, special needs and racism
Understanding Human Behaviour
Topic overviewThe psychoanalytic perspective and Freud's theory of personalityThe humanistic perspective and Rogers' theory of personalityBehaviourism: Pavlov, Skinner and conditioningThe cognitive perspective: Beck and EllisSocial learning theory and the Bobo doll experimentThe biological perspective on behaviourPerspectives on depression and its treatmentPerspectives on aggression and its treatmentPerspectives on stress and its managementPerspectives on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaPerspectives on phobias and their treatmentSocio-economic influences on behaviour
Human Nutrition and Health
Topic overviewProtein, carbohydrate and fat: functions and sourcesVitamins: functions, sources and deficiencyMinerals, water and dietary fibreCurrent dietary guidance and the bodies that issue itNutritional requirements at each stage of lifeVegan diets and meeting nutritional requirementsEnergy requirements, basal metabolic rate and activity levelsModifying recipes and diets for intolerance and allergyDiet-related conditions of the gut, bowel and teethDiet, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesityFactors influencing food choiceFood hygiene and the safe storage and preparation of foodFood poisoning bacteria, symptoms and food safety enforcement
Supporting the Family
- 12 subtopics
- 36 things to know
- A2 5
What Supporting the Family covers
Supporting the Family is examined in Unit A2 5, Supporting The Family — compulsory for the Double Award; one of four options for the Single Award. It covers family structures since the Second World War, why family structures have changed, how families meet physical and intellectual needs, how families meet emotional and social needs, health and social care services a family may need, statutory services and how they support families, the private sector and informal care, voluntary organisations supporting families, effects on families of accessing services, domestic violence, child abuse and addiction and poverty, mental illness and bereavement in families.
Where it is assessed
A2 5
Supporting The Family — an internally assessed report.
Check the CCEA specification ↗The 12 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Family structures since the Second World WarNuclear family, term extended family and vertically extended family.Open →
- Why family structures have changedHow easier divorce has affected family structures, how improved contraception has changed family size and how changes in women's employment have affected the family.Open →
- How families meet physical and intellectual needsThe material needs a family provides — food, warmth, shelter, safety and health care — alongside the stimulation, language, learning and encouragement that shape a child's intellectual development.Open →
- How families meet emotional and social needsFamily meeting a person's social needs, young carer and carer strain.Open →
- Health and social care services a family may needRole of the health visitor in supporting a family, what family mediation offers separating parents and carer's assessment.Open →
- Statutory services and how they support familiesStatutory sector, function of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council and family Support Hub.Open →
- The private sector and informal carePrivate sector in health and social care, four private services a family might use and two drawbacks of relying on the private sector.Open →
- Voluntary organisations supporting familiesVoluntary sector, role of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities and what is meant by voluntary organisations having a campaigning role.Open →
- Effects on families of accessing servicesReducing dependency in this context, service that reduces dependency and self-sufficiency as an outcome of receiving support.Open →
- Domestic violence, child abuse and addictionDomestic abuse, coercive control and four recognised categories of child abuse.Open →
- Poverty, mental illness and bereavement in familiesFuel poverty and three effects of poverty on children in a family.Open →
- Poor parenting, behavioural problems, special needs and racismHow poor parenting, a child's behavioural problems or special educational needs, and racism affect adults and children in a family, and the statutory and voluntary support available in Northern Ireland, from CAMHS and Family Support Hubs to Parenting NI and SENAC.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How can a family help a relative maintain a sense of identity when they move into residential care?
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Name three services a family may need when a member has a mental illness.
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State two drawbacks of relying on the private sector.
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How do statutory services in Northern Ireland respond to domestic abuse?
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Give three possible indicators of neglect in a child.
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Assess the role voluntary organisations play for families affected by abuse or addiction.
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How is racism experienced by a minority ethnic family addressed in Northern Ireland?
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What is a nuclear family?
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Name the four physical needs a family is expected to meet for a vulnerable member.
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Which bodies deliver health and social care services locally in Northern Ireland?
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What does Women's Aid provide for a family affected by domestic abuse?
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Name five effects that using health and social care services can have on a family.
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What is meant by a vertically extended family?
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Name the four broad kinds of reason usually given for the change in family structures since 1945.
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Who counts as a vulnerable member of a family?
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State the two emotional needs the family is expected to meet for a vulnerable member.
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What is the role of the health visitor in supporting a family?
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What is distinctive about the way health and social care is organised in Northern Ireland?
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Name four private services a family might use.
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Which organisation named Aware supports families in Northern Ireland, and what does it do?
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Define self-sufficiency as an outcome of receiving support.
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Distinguish absolute poverty from relative poverty.
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What is a lone-parent family?
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Which piece of legislation reformed the grounds for divorce in Northern Ireland?
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Give three ways a family meets the food needs of an older relative who can no longer cook.
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What is meant by a family meeting a person's social needs?
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Which service supports a person needing nursing care at home rather than in hospital?
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Which government department has overall responsibility for health and social care in Northern Ireland?
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Give two reasons a family might choose private care rather than wait for a statutory service.
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What was Aware Defeat Depression, and what does it offer people and their families?
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How can a parenting programme increase a family's self-sufficiency?
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Describe three effects of poverty on children in a family.
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What effects can a child with behavioural problems have on parents and siblings?
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What statutory support is available for a child with behavioural problems in Northern Ireland?
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What effects can a child with special educational needs have on family life?
Take Supporting the Family further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Residential home vs Nursing home
Residential home: a setting providing accommodation and help with personal care. Nursing home: a setting that also has qualified clinical staff on duty around the clock.
Relative poverty vs Absolute poverty
Relative poverty: hardship measured against what is normal in the society a person lives in. Absolute poverty: hardship measured against what is needed to survive.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is a nuclear family?
Model answer
A nuclear family is two parents and their dependent children living together in one household.
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Define the term extended family.
Model answer
An extended family is a household or close family group that includes relatives beyond the parents and children, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins.
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What is meant by a vertically extended family?
Model answer
A vertically extended family contains three or more generations, such as grandparents, parents and children, living together or in very close contact.
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What is a lone-parent family?
Model answer
A lone-parent family is one adult living with and taking main responsibility for one or more dependent children.
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Give three reasons a family may become a lone-parent family.
Model answer
A family may become a lone-parent family through separation or divorce, through the death of a partner, or because a parent has a child without a partner living with them.
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What is a blended or reconstituted family?
Model answer
A blended or reconstituted family is formed when two adults form a new partnership and bring children from previous relationships into one household.
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Supporting the Family revision questions
- What does Supporting the Family cover in CCEA A-Level Health and Social Care?
- 12 subtopics: family structures since the second world war, why family structures have changed, how families meet physical and intellectual needs, how families meet emotional and social needs, health and social care services a family may need, statutory services and how they support families, the private sector and informal care, voluntary organisations supporting families, effects on families of accessing services, domestic violence, child abuse and addiction, poverty, mental illness and bereavement in families and poor parenting, behavioural problems, special needs and racism. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Supporting the Family organised?
- By the CCEA 0003 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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