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Name of resource: treatments for eating disorders - better AO1 descriptions
Submitted by: Aidan Sammons
Specification details: AQA-B
Other spec: AQA-A possibly
Details: activity aimed at getting students to write better descriptions of treatments in
AQA-B module 4 atypical.  In my experience they tend to give generic descriptions of 
treatments which don't properly address the requirement to describe different types of treatment
_for_ particular disorders.

Students are given two descriptions of psychodynamic treatments and invited to consider which 
is better & why.  Things they should pick up on include:

Listing therapeutic techniques vs. explaining what they involve.
Linking techniques used to the symptoms they are intended to treat.
Explaining why/how the techniques work.

They are then given four further descriptions (behavioural & cognitive; anorexia & bulimia)
and invited to use the insights they have obtained to rewrite them so as to get a better mark.

NB: AQA-B candidates do not need to know about psychodynamic treatments for EDs - these are
given simply as an example.  Make sure your students know the exact requirements for the
spec they are following.