Four Types of Bullying
3. Covert Bullying
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. Covert bullying includes: · Lying and spreading rumours · Negative facial or physical gestures, menacing or contemptuous looks · Playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate · Mimicking unkindly · Encouraging others to socially exclude someone · Damaging someone's social reputation or social acceptance |
4. Cyber Bullying
Cyber Bullying is overt or covert bullying behaviours using digital technologies. It can happen at any time. It can be in public or in private and sometimes only known to the target and the person bullying. Cyber Bullying includes: · Harassment via a mobile phone · Harassment by email · Setting up a defamatory personal website · Deliberately excluding someone from social networking spaces |