2.1.2.2  Abusive behaviour is always harmful, including:(a)   physical abuse, which may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, biting, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm;(b)   emotional abuse, i.e., persistent emotional ill-treatment such as to cause severe and persistent ad-verse effects on another’s emotional development or state, which may involve bullying someone, or causing them to feel frightened, embarrassed or in danger, or otherwise causing emotional harm; and(c)   sexual abuse, i.e.