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Resiliency

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At the heart of the PAR Model is the concept of resiliency. This is the seventh key component of the Model. This concept applies to all five bodies. Resiliency is defined as the capacity of a body to withstand infection, trauma, and toxicity as well as the range of healthy responses available to that body to deal with the infection, trauma, and toxicity. The greater the capacity and range, the greater the resiliency and the stronger the immune system.

The graphic below illustrates the relationship between capacity, range, and resiliency.

One of the goals of developing healthy human beings is to increase the capacity and range of all five bodies. For example, offenders in the criminal/justice setting can be very sensitive to being disrespected. This suggests low resiliency to verbal challenges and other threats to those with low self-regard.

The PAR Model uses a process to assess resiliency. Called "Risk-Resiliency Mapping," this process assists both in understanding the risk and resiliency dynamics of an individual or population as well as developing responses to lower risk and increase resiliency (the "violence immune system"). The illustration below is an example of a Risk - Resiliency Map (provided for illustrative purposes only since the details are to small to view because of the size of the illustration).

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