What are the diferent types of bullying?
They’re many different types of bullying and it can happen in many different ways, at anytime and anywhere. It all depends on the circumstance and how it affects the victim. People can be physically and/or verbally bullied. Victims could also be bullied on the internet by mobiles phones or bullies could spread rumours behind someone’s back.
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Covert BullyingCovert bullying is often harder to recognise and can be carried out behind the bullied person's back. It is designed to harm someone's social reputation and/or cause humiliation. Covert bullying includes: lying and spreading rumours,negative facial or physical gestures, threatening or giving disrespectful looks, playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate someone, impersonating unkindly, encouraging others to socially exclude someone, damaging someone's social reputation or social acceptance.
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