1. Unhealthy Relationships

2. Unhealthy Behaviour Abuse (cruel) negative behaviour that often causes harm can be: physical verbal emotional sexual Harassment unwelcome and uninvited attention that causes distress (negative results) can take many forms

3. Forms of Harassment Bullying cruel behaviour (abuse) focused on a specific person or group usually the bully and victim know each other but are not friends often involves a power difference physical power social power intellectual power emotional hurt from bullying can last a lifetime

4. Forms of Harassment Physical Bullying hitting, kicking stopping someone from moving / leaving the situation taking or damaging property Verbal Bullying name calling, insulting, teasing, threatening often much more difficult to see the negative effects Relational Bullying telling rumours ostracizing someone (keeping the person out of a group)

5. Forms of Harassment Racial / Ethnocultural Harassment Bullying / harassing someone because one of the following things is different about them: race skin colour religious beliefs ethnic origin (family background) citizenship

6. Forms of Harassment Sexual Harassment unwanted sexual comments, advances and requests for sexual favours comments about a persons body telling offensive jokes, showing offensive pictures inappropriate staring Discrimination treating someone differently because they are different in some way behaviour that shows prejudice to a person or group of people

7. Discrimination vs Harassment Harassment is intentional and deliberately cruel (causing hurt or harm) Discrimination may not have the intention of causing harm Unfair

8. Teasing vs Harassment Teasing A comment or joke that is critical, but is also: respectful (not meaning to insult) affectionate (with a friend or someone you like) considerate (thought about before to stop hurt or harm) Can be difficult to know sometimes what is teasing and what is harassment

9. Teasing vsHarassment – A Blurry Line Remember, Harassment is uninvited and unwanted How can we know for sure if the comments we are saying are wanted, or not wanted? If someone asks you to stop teasing, but you continue, you are harassing them

10. Preventing Harassment Ways to stop harassment: ask for harassers to stop sometimes, the people don’t know they are harassing avoid the harassing person / situation get help an adult teacher police officer

11. Preventing Harassment Seeing harassment happen, and ignoring it IS NOT OK if you do nothing to stop harassment, you are : saying that it is ok encouraging the harasser to continue

12. Abusive Relationships Remember, abuse can be: physical emotional verbal sexual