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COPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.
Ninety Percent of Teen Girls are Sexually Harassed by Males or Bullied by Other Girls
Three new studies about bullying and sexual harassment reveal that while 90% of teenage girls report being sexually harassed, boys also experience negative consequences from attending schools that allow it. Another study found that contrary to popular perception, pretty girls are more likely to be bullied, especially by other girls, than their less attractive peers.
The first study involved collecting data from 600 girls 12 to 18 years old in Georgia and California. Nine out of ten told researchers that they had been sexually harassed more than once. Over 60% reported that it came in the form of unwanted romantic attention, demeaning gender-related comments, and/or teasing about appearance. Over half reported unwanted physical contact, and 25% had been bullied or threatened by a male. Over half were the brunt of teasing about their skills in math, science, or computer technology, and 76% reported harassment about their athletic abilities.
"Our findings are sadly consistent with previous research," said Professor Campbell Leaper of the University of California at Santa Cruz. This study, led by Dr. Leaper and Dr. Christia Brown of the University of Kentucky, appears in Child Development.
Dr. Alayne Ormerod of the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying 550 teenagers, found that girls reported more frequent and more distressing levels of sexual harassment than boys did. However, boys who went to schools where such harassment was tolerated were more likely to withdraw from school and experience feelings of not being safe and lowered self-esteem.
"When teachers and administrators do not actively intervene, it has negative consequences for all students - both boys and girls, targets and non-targets," according to the study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Finally, Dr. Lindsay Leenaars of the University of Alberta in Canada, using data from 2,300 students 12 to 18 years old, found that girls who are perceived as attractive experience 35% more bulling than others do.
"Other girls use aggression to knock these girls down a bit and to eliminate them as competition for boys," she wrote in an article published in Aggressive Behavior.
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