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The PAR ModelThe PAR Model in Brief

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“[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.

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Elements

Key elements of the PAR Model are:

Severe Malicious Thought Virus  

The Severe Malicious Thought Virus
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.

Experience Power Deficiency Disorder   Experienced Power Deficiency Disorder
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
Public Health The Public Health Approach
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
Nonpolitical Nonpolitical
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
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Nonreligious Nonreligious
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
Definition A New Definition of Violence
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
Epidemiology Epidemiology and the Medical Model
The Model is built upon a firm public health foundation.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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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
  • 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
  • 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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