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
How to tell they’ve got it
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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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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
explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions
identify how different situations influence emotional responses
apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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.