Awareness: Appraisal

Awareness

Stress Management

Stress

Resilience

Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine

Lisa S. Weinstock MD - Psychiatry

<div id="HwMain" class="HwBlock"> <script language="javascript">  if (!window.org) var org = { healthwise: {'application':{}} }; else if (!window.org.healthwise) org["healthwise"] = {'application':{}}; org.healthwise.config = { root: 'https://assetpool.healthwise.net/14.4/common/desktop/alpine.rhtml.kbnet.awesome/', locale: 'en-us', version: '14.4', isoshg: false }; org.healthwise.document = {}; org.healthwise.document.id = "tx4365"; org.healthwise.document.section = "te7954"; org.healthwise.document.healthwise = true; org.healthwise.document.title = "Interactive Tool: How Well Do You Bounce Back?"; org.healthwise.document.family = "kb"; org.healthwise.document.doctype = "iToolWrapper"; org.healthwise.document.pagetype = "content";  </script> <div class="HwRow"><div class="HwColumn" id="HwColumnSidebar1"><div class="HwCustom" id="HwCustomSidebar"></div></div><div class="HwColumn" id="HwColumnContent"><div id="HwContentTop"></div><div role="article" id="HwContentWrapper" class="HwTypeiToolWrapper HwContentWrapper HwElement"><div class="HwCustom" id="HwCustomContentTop"></div><div class="HwContentHeader"><p><a name="top" id="Hwtop"><span class="HwAccessibilityText">Top of the page</span></a></p></div><div class="HwContentTitle"><h1 id="HwContentTitle">Interactive Tool: How Well Do You Bounce Back?</h1></div><div class="HwContent"><div class="HwNavigationSection HwSectionSpecialSection" id="sec-te7954"><a name="te7954"></a><h2 class="HwSectionTitle">What does this tool help you learn?</h2><p>This tool measures your resiliency—your ability to bounce back from stressful situations. People who are resilient recover quickly from disruptive change, illness, or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in destructive ways.</p><p><i class="Sizeminus">Reprinted with permission. © Copyright 2005 Practical Psychology Press, adapted from Chapter 2 in "The Resiliency Advantage (Berrett-Koehler)," by Al Siebert, PhD. 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Talking to a therapist may help.</li></ul></div><div class="HwNavigationSection HwSectionSpecialSection" id="sec-te7957"><a name="te7957"></a><h2 class="HwSectionTitle">What's next?</h2><p>Improving your resiliency skills does not happen overnight. Resiliency develops through gradual, small changes in your outlook on life and careful self-evaluation. Some people can begin this shift on their own. 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