Child Abuse

It is also important to distinguish between aggressive behavior (physical, verbal or technological) and bullying. Not every aggressive behavior meets the definition of bullying, however, bullying by definition always includes aggressive behavior. Therefore, conflict can include aggressive behavior, and yet still fall within the conflict definition (illustrated previously). However, when the conflict results in aggressive behavior or aggressive behavior arises without conflict and includes repetition, difference in power, and intention to harm, then it is considered bullying.

Various forms of bullying

● Physical Bullying: pushing, kicking, punching, including threats to injure another and taking or damaging others property. ● Verbal bullying: insults, sarcasm, gossip, spreading rumors, and continuous bothering. ● Emotional Bullying: Tormenting, humiliating, ridiculing, ignoring, or excluding.

Cyberbullying

Bullying that occurs using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as mobile phones, computers, and tablets, as well as communication tools including social media pages, text messages, chats, and web pages. Examples of cyberbullying include malicious text messages or emails, rumors sent by mail or posted on social media as well as photos, videos, or pages with inappropriate content or fake profiles.

Cyberbullying presents instantaneous and permanent characteristics of modern technological communication. Aspects of the definition of bullying (differences in power, intent, and repetition) are immediate in the case of the use of technology.

Cyberbullying through chat groups: This occurs when students, parents/guardians or employees use chat groups to harass, intimidate, exclude or cause psychological harm (intentional or involuntary), including WhatsApp, SnapChat, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, or other similar instant communication applications.

Child Abuse

All acts of physical, sexual or emotional violence, whether in the family group or in a social environment, committed against children and adolescents, on a regular or occasional basis. Abuse can be perpetrated by omission (understood as lack of adult attention and support to the needs and requirements of the child or adolescent, whether in terms of food, healthcare, physical protection, stimulation, social interaction or other), suppression (of the various ways in which a child or adolescent