Stalking is “any unwanted, repeated and continuing contact which directly or indirectly causes a person to feel threatened, harassed or intimidated.”

“Suicidal behaviour or suicidality is a comprehensive concept including suicidal thoughts, attempts and completed suicides.”

“Non-suicidal self-injury is where the self-injury is not intended to result in death (also termed as self-harm, self-mutilation, cutting and parasuicide).”

Family violence looks like “violent, threatening or other behaviour by a person that coerces or controls a member of the person’s family (the family member), or causes the family member to be fearful”

Threats can be “a statement that expresses an intention to commit harm or evil to someone who does not do what is told”

• Discrimination means being treated unfairly or not as well as others because of a personal characteristic like age, gender, race or disability.
• Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological abuse that creates a risk to a person’s health and safety (including mental health).

“actions, words or physical gestures that could reasonably be perceived to be the cause of another person’s distress or discomfort.

The College defines behaviour as being unacceptable if:

• It is unwanted by the recipient.

• It has the purpose or effect of violating the recipient’s dignity and/or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment, and

• Having regard to all the circumstances, including the recipient’s perception, it was reasonable for the behaviour to have that effect.