12/26/2013
There are many different types of bullying. These are four types.
1: Physical Bullying
-Hitting, tripping, property damage
2: Verbal/Emotional Bullying (the most commonly recognized and used)
-Name calling, insulting, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or any kind of verbal abuse.
3: Covert Bullying (*one of the hardest to recognize and is deigned to destroy a person's reputation. )
-lying and spreading rumors, negative facial or physical gestures, playing nasty jokes to humiliate and embarrass, mimicking unkindly, encouraging others to exclude someone socially, damaging someone's social acceptance
4: Cyberbullying
-is overt or covert bullying behaviors using electronic devices. It can happen over text, Facebook, Twitter, E-Mail, anywhere and anytime, it can also happen to any person.
Please go to this website for more information and bullying, how to recognize it and what to do if you or someone you know is being bullied.
http://www.ncab.org.au/
Some of the nation's pre-eminent legal experts, law enforcement and educational experts met in Melbourne on 18-19 July 2013 to address issues surrounding bullying, young people and the law.