Mark McPherson Consulting

Case Study 7

   

Lessons for students  —  to reduce the risks associated with alcohol

    

Mark was part of a team that produced a range of detailed step-by-step teaching packages to help reduce the harm from alcohol and from behaviours associated with alcohol such as drink-driving. Qualitative and quantitative was conducted to determine:

  

  1. Levels of use of alcohol and illicit drugs by the students;
  2. Context of use;
  3. Motivations for using and from refraining from use; and
  4. Strategies employed to attempt to keep to an intended limit - and their success and failures.

    

Teaching packages were distributed to colleges and Education Departments across Australia and included:

  

  1. No thanks I don't smoke - designed to help students refuse the offer of a cigarette.
  2. I'd rather you didn't - designed to help students devise and implement strategies to avoid passive smoking.
  3. The Fatal Mix - designed to help students devise and implement strategies to refuse to drive after drinking. This incorporated a specially-produced series of trigger films.
  4. Alcohol Without Tears - designed to help students devise and implement strategies to avoid drinking more than a planned when in a group and in 'shouts' or 'rounds'.

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