Angie Hardage Bundy

is honored with a Large Paver from The Star Girls 2007

Parents and daughters have contributed to a group donation to honor our beloved Mrs. Bundy in the Wichita State University Plaza of heroines. An engraved granite paver will be placed in th circular plaza symbolizing the girls and their families choosing Mrs. Bundy as a heroine for envisioning and pioneering Star Girls. Helping young girls to grow emotionally and physically healthy in a complicated and often confusing society is truly heroic. Angie Hardage-Bundy

Community Service
Girl Scouts of the Golden Plains (2001 – 2002)
Star Girls (2002 – present)
Big Brothers, Big Sisters (2003 – 2004)
Three Trees – A Center for Grieving Children and Their Families (2003 to present)
The Healing Path Foundation – Dedicated to the Awareness and Prevention of Eating Disorders (2001 to present)

Research Interests
My professional interests encompass many areas, including clinical psychology, child psychology, health psychology, and social psychology. Primarily, I am interested in the areas of eating disorder prevention and media literacy. My current work focuses on exploring protective factors and risk factors involved in the development of eating disorders, along with identification of those factors shared by the frequently co-morbid diagnoses of substance abuse and depression. I enjoy working directly with youth in exploring the effects of culture on psychological health and behavior. My interest in media literacy education includes exploring the impact of advertising and images in the media on the developing person’s identity and psychological health.

Star Girls
Star Girls TM is a primary prevention program with an emphasis on promoting wellness and resiliency in girls. The activities for monthly, grade-specific meetings focus on a variety of topics, including body image, stress management, communication skills, relational aggression, media awareness, identity, role models, gender roles, emotional intelligence, conflict management, women’s history, and many more! Some meetings will also include a physical fitness component in an effort to promote the mind-body component of health.
The key objectives of Star Girls TM are as follows:
1. to infuse young girls with healthful coping skills and resiliency while fostering a healthy, balanced sense of identity,
2. to provide this information at an early age when resistance will be minimal and the skills and concepts can be successfully integrated during identity formation,
3. to minimize the formation of cliques and the incidence of relational aggression through coalition building among the girls, and to provide a safe forum for parents to collaborate, share ideas about developmental issues, and support one another in the process.