The Early Years Coping Cards provide clinicians and educators with a visual tool to help focus the attention of either individual children or groups of children on a range of challenging everyday situations that may cause uncertainty or fear, and on strategies for coping with these.
The tool is primarily used to develop coping strategies and stimulate conversations about coping within various situations. Cards can relate to 'real-life' events (situation cards) or present visual cues about the different ways in which children may respond to the situations presents (coping cards).
The cards are accompanied by a User’s Guide that provides background information on coping and coping in the early years, conclusions from research, practical tips on using the cards and multiple classroom examples of the cards in use.
This set of materials received a High Commendation at the Dept of Education & Early Childhood Development (DEECD) Early Years Awards 2010.
User Guide
Set of Situation Cards (9)
Set of Coping Cards (22)