**2. Definitions**

**Emotional decompression**: **Consists of working on emotions, paying attention to mental schemas,** and releasing what's not useful to you, leaving space for wellbeing to enter.

**De-acclimatise**: The process of training the soldiers to be prepared for the volatility, vigilant, intense, sometimes dramatic nature of the battlefield and that soldiers unlearn some of the approaches to resilience and vigilance required during wartime and adapt to new realities and approaches for non-combat functioning.

**Psychological debriefing**: An intervention immediately following a traumatic event (e.g., a disaster) that aims to mitigate long-term distress and prevent the emergence of posttraumatic stress disorder in those exposed to the event.

**Post-traumatic growth**: A concept describing positive psychological change experienced as a result of struggling with highly challenging, highly stressful life circumstances.

**9-R model of decompression:** A nine-component model of decompression aiming to be a start point for future research and development into strengthening the understanding of how to manage the effects of combat and war fatigue.
