types of discrimination

• abuse

  negative and harmful way of behaving towards another individual or a certain group of people
• examples of abuse

  physical, emotional, sexual, financial or verbal abuse, bullying or socially excluding someone
• direct discrimination

  intentionally putting someone at disadvantage or treating them unfairly based on their differences
• indirect discrimination

  when policy, practice or rule applies to everybody but has detrimental effect on or disadvantages some people or a particular group
• prejudice

  negative attitude or dislike of an individual or group, often based on ill-informed personal opinion about one of the aspects
• stereotyping

  generalisations, often offensive and exaggerated, made about particular group of people, eg. all old people have dementia
• labelling

  identifies people as members of a particular group, 'they are all the same'
• bullying

  threatening, intimidating, humiliating or frightening others, repeated behaviour intended to physically or psychologically hurt
• bullying is more like to occur where someone is in a position of power, manager, individual dependent on a care worker or relative