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Running Head: BOUNCING BACK 1
Resilience Life Cycle: Bouncing Back
Liberty University
BOUNCING BACK 2
Abstract
In the Resilience Life Cycle, the bouncing back stage is just as important as the first two stages.
After military personnel have fought in a war, they are finding that they must rebuild their lives
and relationships around the aftermath of the war they fought in. Throughout this paper, the
author will describe the importance of the bouncing back stage, and how families and counselors
impact the benefits of how the military personnel bounce back from the war. Studies and other
perspectives on the different and unique approaches to assisting military personnel with
bouncing back from their service will be included in this paper.
BOUNCING BACK 3
Bouncing back is the third section of the Resilience Life Cycle. Even through bouncing
back comes at the end of the cycle, it is just as important as the previous two cycles. “Bouncing
back’ is the most dangerous and the most challenging” (Dees, 2011, p.136). During bouncing
back, military personnel are now having to find a new way to live their lives after witnessing the
traumas that came from serving in the war. Before military personnel are deployed, the military
tries to psychologically prepare the men and women for the trauma and sights that they are about
to witness, but for many of these brave men and women, the preparations are not enough. The
sights, sounds, and actions are terrifying, and for many military personnel, they find that the war
has changed them in ways they could have never imagined.
Before the consideration of bouncing...