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There are four basic types of bullying: verbal, physical, psychological, and cyber. Cyberbullying is becoming one of the most common types of bullying. While victims can experience bullying at any age, it is witnessed most often in school-aged children.

Direct bullying is a relatively open attack on a victim that is physical and/or verbal in nature.[5] Indirect bullying is more subtle and harder to detect, but involves one or more forms of relational aggression, including social isolation via intentional exclusion, spreading rumors to defame one's character or reputation, making faces or obscene gestures behind someone's back, and manipulating friendships or other relationships.[5]

Pack bullying is bullying undertaken by a group. The 2009 Wesley Report on bullying found that pack bullying was more prominent in high schools and lasted longer than bullying undertaken by individuals.

Instituting programs, and workshops within schools, and specifically into classrooms can lower the risk of bullying. When students are faced with bullies, they may not know how to react and a student who has experienced bullying may not know how to report it to a school official. Most students may have been told by their parents at one point in the academic career that if someone was to hit them they should tell a teacher or school administrator but that is easier said than done, maybe because of fair that the student being punished will make them more irate and therefore encourage the bully to seek revenge from being told on. According to an article "Teacher and Staff Voices: Implementation of a Positive Behavior Bullying Prevention Program in an Urban School" by Joan Letendre, Jason A. Ostrander, and Alison Mickens, "The school social worker’s expertise within the school setting and with parents is essential for any schoolwide intervention’s success, but he or she cannot be the sole person who is monitoring the ongoing delivery of the intervention" (Letendre, Ostrander, Mickens, 7). Ending verbal, physical, psychological, and cyber bullying takes the help of all school staff, and parents, and the collective action of all.