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Types And Categories Of Bullying 

Types of Bullying

Categories of Bullying

  • Physical Bullying

Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property.  Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage. 

  • Repeated Bullying

The bullying does the bullying for more than one day until it became his/her hobby.

  • Verbal Bullying

Verbal bulling includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target.

  • Deliberate Bullying

The person is doing it to hurt or upset the victim in order to get his/her and other peoples attention.

  • Social Bullying

Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert 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.

  • Targeted Bullying

The person is targeting or bullying someone who he know is weaker than him/her to show off power and dominance to them and to others.

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