Examples of Mark's experience — Drug and Alcohol Education & Teaching Packages
- Party Without Pain. The use of Real Life Rehearsals to help teenagers control their drinking. (2007) Price: $45.00 plus GST. This 35-page document (2004) provides teachers with details of each of the 10-steps in Real Life Rehearsals as applied to helping teenagers resist the pressure to drink.
- Curriculum package: Effective Strategies for Police for reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS among, and from, Injecting Drug Users. This consists of 9 Topics which comprise 4 separate competency-based Modules and is consistent with the Australian Quality Training Framework. Each Topic consists of educationally sound educational objectives, a step-by-step Teacher's Guide, assessment tasks, background reading, participant handouts, and slides. 2004. The Package is comprised of over 150,000 words.
- Education course: Minimisation of Alcohol-Related Crime - An intensive residential course (8 full days) for NSW Police.
- Information cards, pamphlets, material for the intranet and internet. Responsible for the design, production, and dissemination of a wide range of resources (information cards, pamphlets, information for the intranet and internet) for a wide range of audiences on issues such as: the Cannabis Cautioning Scheme, "move along" legislation, drugs and the law (tailored for different drugs and in a variety of languages).
- HIV/AIDS education: For allied health workers. Designed and implemented a 3-day course on HIV/AIDS and Hep C for allied health staff and several other courses for health promotion staff and youth workers. For council staff. Designed and implemented a 3-hour course on HIV/AIDS and Hep C for outdoor staff of Fairfield City Council. HIV/AIDS and Infection Control. For hospital staff.
- Drug use - from myth to reality. A Group Leader's Guide. McPherson M.A. Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series, 1990.
- I'd rather you didn't. Participants learn strategies to avoid, and deal with, passive smoking. Hamilton, H, McPherson M.A., and Wheller, R. (1990) NSW TAFE in-house publication series. 1990.
- Help a student in my class is on drugs! - A Teacher's Guide. and Help a student in my class is on drugs! - A Group Leader's Manual. McPherson M.A. and Dwyer P. Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series, 1989.
- Pooling Your Wisdom for Safer Sex. McPherson, M. A. Blissvale: Sydney. 1989. 2nd Edition 1994. Copyright Mark A McPherson. Completely revised in 2003 with the new title: A practical method for helping people learn and use skills to negotiate and insist on Safer Se based on the "Pooling Your wisdom" technique.
- No thanks I don't smoke. Particpants learn the art of refusing the offer of a cigarette. Given to Life Education Centres Australia to use it as they required. 1989.
- The Fatal Mix: A Set of Lessons (incorporates a specially produced video of "triggers") McPherson M. A. and Wheller R. (1989) Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series.
- Pooling Your Wisdom: A Method for Generating Role-Plays. McPherson, M.A. (1988) Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series.
- Alcohol Without Tears: A Set of Lessons. McPherson, M.A., Palin M.N., and Wheller, R. (1988) Alcohol Without Tears: A Set of Lessons. Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series.
- Have a Drug-Free Pregnancy: A Set of Lessons. Sunderland, G., McPherson M.A., and Wheller, R. (1988) Have a Drug-Free Pregnancy: A Set of Lessons. Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series.
- Playing Safe with Tranquillisers: A Set of Lessons. McPherson, M.A. and Wheller, R. (1988) Playing Safe with Tranquillisers: A Set of Lessons. Sydney: NSW TAFE in-house publication series.
- Education courses for counsellors and teachers - research-based drug education. The courses ran for 18 weeks at 2 hours per week (36 hours) and the knowledge and skills of the participants were examined by formal examinations. 1986-1991.
- Babies don't need drugs. A slide and sound teaching package with notes for the teacher. Produced by the Health Education Unit, Sydney University, 1985.