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Choosing the Right Coping Strategy

Understand that different situations require different coping strategies — what works for anger might not work for sadness, and what helps at school might be different from what helps at home

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Can your child recognise that when they're angry they need to do something physical like walk around, but when they're worried they need to talk it through — rather than using the same approach for every difficult feeling?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Simple Calming Strategiesages 5–7Different coping strategies builds on knowing basic calming strategies
Vocabulary: resilience and selfages 7–10Distinguishing different coping strategies requires the vocabulary of regulation, triggers, and distress
How Emotions Feel in Your Bodyages 7–9Choosing coping strategies benefits from reading body-emotion signals
Choosing the Right Coping Strategythis skill · ages 7–9
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Resilience and Bouncing Backages 9–11Resilience builds on having multiple coping strategies
Good Stress and Bad Stressages 11–12Advanced self-regulation depends on earlier foundational self-regulation

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9HP4P06low confidenceYear 3–4 · Personal, social and community health

explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions

AC9HP2P03low confidenceYear 1–2 · Personal, social and community health

identify how different situations influence emotional responses

AC9HP6P06low confidenceYear 5–6 · Personal, social and community health

apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP4P06medium confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP2P04low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 1 and 2 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP4P02low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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