Students, no matter their age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status, will unfortunately experience some kind of trauma while attending school. One of the most prevalent experiences of trauma among students is sexual harassment that occurs at school. The National Traumatic Child Stress Network (NCTSN) defines sexual harassment as sexual abuse not involving contact which includes acts such as “genital exposure (‘flashing’), verbal pressure for sex, and sexual exploitation for purposes of prostitution or pornography.” Due to the nature of this kind of trauma, schools need to provide at school resources for students experiencing trauma as a result of sexual harassment. This paper will look at data about sexual harassment in schools, the emotional
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According to the survey, 17% of students reported staying home from school and 15% got in trouble at school (p. 25, Figure 9). The NCTSN would agree student victims of sexual harassment are more likely to be disruptive in class and have more school absences. According to the NCTSN, students experiencing trauma are more likely to have disruptive behavior and attend school less frequently. The NCTSC states that “There are usually high levels of … potential for disruptive behavior, or loss of student attendance” (para. …show more content…
According to Najavits (2002), grounding means to distract oneself from emotional pain to gain control of oneself. Najavits (2002) defines grounding as “a set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain” (para.1). The three categories of grounding are mental, which focuses on using the mind to distract from trauma, physical, which makes use of physical objects to distract, and soothing, which uses familiarly to distract from intense feelings of trauma. According to Najavits (2002), grounding techniques are separated into three categories: mental, physical, and soothing grounding
According to the survey, 17% of students reported staying home from school and 15% got in trouble at school (p. 25, Figure 9). The NCTSN would agree student victims of sexual harassment are more likely to be disruptive in class and have more school absences. According to the NCTSN, students experiencing trauma are more likely to have disruptive behavior and attend school less frequently. The NCTSC states that “There are usually high levels of … potential for disruptive behavior, or loss of student attendance” (para. …show more content…
According to Najavits (2002), grounding means to distract oneself from emotional pain to gain control of oneself. Najavits (2002) defines grounding as “a set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain” (para.1). The three categories of grounding are mental, which focuses on using the mind to distract from trauma, physical, which makes use of physical objects to distract, and soothing, which uses familiarly to distract from intense feelings of trauma. According to Najavits (2002), grounding techniques are separated into three categories: mental, physical, and soothing grounding