Types Of Bullying

Ibrahim Sheikh
What Is Bullying?
• Bullying is an ongoing and deliberate misuse of
power in relationships through repeated
verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that
intends to cause physical, social and/or
psychological harm. It can involve an
individual or a group misusing their power, or
perceived power, over one or more persons
who feel unable to stop it from happening.
Physical Bullying
• Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking,
tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging
property. Physical bullying causes both short
term and long term damage. Physical
bullying can lead to fights and can escalate
really quickly.

Example of what REAL bullying is

Verbal Bullying
• Verbal bulling includes name calling,
insults, teasing, intimidation, racist
remarks, or verbal abuse. While
verbal bullying can start off harmless,
it can escalate to levels which start
affecting the individual target.
Cyber Bullying
• Cyber bullying can be overt or covert bullying behaviours using digital
technologies including hardware such as computers and smartphones,
and software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites and
other online platforms.

• Cyber bullying can include:

• abusive or hurtful texts, emails or posts, images or videos
• deliberately excluding others online
• nasty gossip or rumours
• imitating others online or using their log-in.
 Sexual Bullying
• People who harass or bully use cruel comments, gestures, threats, or actions.
They try to insult, demean, exclude, shame, or hurt others.
• Sometimes, people who harass and bully do it with sexual comments or
actions. This is called sexual harassment or sexual bullying.
• Sexual harassment and bullying include things like these:

• making sexual jokes, comments, or gestures

• spreading sexual rumours (in person, by text, or social media)

• posting sexual comments, pictures, or videos

• asking for sex or offering to have sex

• touching or grabbing someone in a sexual way

 Questions?
1) What is bullying?
2) Name the 4 types of bullying that I have explained
3) What should you do if someone physically bullies you?
4) What should you do if someone sexually bullies you?
5) Who should you tell if you are experiencing bullying?