The PAR Model in Brief
“[The PAR Model program] was a resounding success
in development, implementation, and
meeting
stated objectives.”
— John J. Aldana, Sr.
Superintendent
Olympic Corrections Center
Washington State Department of Corrections |
Summary
Early applications of the Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration (PAR) Model which suggest that it is an effective alternative to the traditional, punitive- and fear-based approaches to dealing with violence. A review of the elements which make up this new "social technology" will provide a basic understanding of the Model's approach, depth, and scope.

Elements
Key elements of the PAR Model are:

A New Language
Some of the new terms (applied to violence and, most especially, the PAR Model) which are described in detail in the book are:
- 5 bodies
- Behavioral cluster
- Compensatory strategies
- Conceptual cluster
- Conceptual noise
- Construct
- Construct disruption
- Construct horizon
- Construct overlay(s)
- Construct porosity
- Cultural construct
- Degrees of severity
- Discriminator
- Disrupter meme
- Emotional body
- Environmental body
- Existential locus of control
- Existential self-management
- Experienced Power Deficiency Disorder
- Family construct
- First degree violence
- Helper meme
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- Information cluster
- Interactive mapping
- Interrupter meme
- Intervention vector
- Lens
- Mental body
- Object identification
- Objectification/action process
- PAR transaction(s)
- Power frame
- Power invalidation
- Power nullification
- Power pairing
- Power redirect
- Power set point
- Power surrogate
- Power swap
- Power thresholds
- Power tolerance zone
- Proxy violence
- Resiliency depth and span
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- Risk/resiliency mapping
- Second degree violence
- Sequence interruption
- Severe Malevalent Thought Virus
- Spiritual body
- Spiritual construct
- SPR – stabilize, protocol, refer
- Structural framing
- Target power
- Third degree violence
- Transactional disorientation
- Trauma threshold
- Trauma/recovery vector
- Universal field
- Vectors of transmission
- Vector map
- Violence risk factor management
- Worklife construct
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