in a cult. Abuse, Harassment, Bullying and Threat HARASSMENT Arellano, Componion, Flores, Galarce, -any unwelcome remarks, behaviours or Galindez, Grecia, Labay, Ragudo, communications based on race, colour, Taniajura ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE & sexual orientation, physical or mental EMOTIONAL ABUSE disability, gender, age, or criminal or Physiological typically refers to the summary conviction which causes intellectual abilities, or mental. While offense or humiliation to any person Emotional typically hits a person’s BULLYING emotional feelings. It is a form of abuse, characterized by a person subjecting, or -Is a distinctive pattern of exposing, another person to behavior harming and humiliating others, that may result in psychological trauma, specifically those who are in some way including anxiety, chronic depression, or smaller, weaker, younger or in any way post-traumatic stress disorder. more vulnerable than the bully. Bullying is not garden-variety aggression; it is a FORMS OF ABUSE deliberate and repeated attempt to All forms of abuse are illegal this cause harm to others of lesser power. includes; FIVE TYPES OF BULLYING PHYSICAL ABUSE – Also known as Physical bullying domestic abuse or domestic violence. Physical abuse is any physical Verbal bullying act or threat of a physical act designed to harm another person physically. Relational bullying SEXUAL ABUSE – Sexual abuse Reactive bullying includes any unwanted sexual act forced on the victim. This form of abuse Bullying can also involve assault is also often known as sexual on a person's property assault or rape. VERBAL ABUSE –This type of abuse occurs when an abuser uses words and THREAT body language with the intent to hurt It is a warning that someone or a person another person. is about to harmed to be close to a ELDER ABUSE – This type of abuse catastrophe. happens between an elder and another A statement that someone will be hurt or person, typically younger, such as the harmed, esp. if the person does not do elder’s child. Elder abuse consists of something in particular. other forms of abuse perpetrated against an elder SPIRITUAL ABUSE –This type of abuse includes attacking another’s belief system, denying access to a