Things to know
- Friendships and peer interactions can be a normal, and sometimes challenging, part of growing up.
- Learning how to deal with these situations can take time and you might need advice and support.
- Typical, occasional friendship or peer difficulties, while unpleasant, tend to resolve reasonably quickly.
- Compared with typical peer relationship difficulties, peer victimisation is defined as targeted (that is, another person is deliberately choosing you).
- Peer victimisation means that you are targeted repeatedly through verbally or physically aggressive behaviour (or both), social isolation and exclusion.