Author: Susie Wiet
It was when I had a conversation with Dr. Tasneem Ismailji, a pediatrician visiting from the San Francisco Bay area, about the importance of letting primary care practitioners know that resiliency from trauma was indeed possible that the idea arose to create the tool. It is called the Health Resiliency Stress Questionnaire (HRSQ). The goal of the HRSQ is for it to be easy and quick to complete by patients and an easy way for the provider to see patterns and respond accordingly. One of the main functions of the HRSQ is to help practitioners ask some tough questions to the patient and for the patient to feel heard. The effect that negative emotional states have on the health and wellbeing of the physical body has been researched extensively. It has been shown how simply being listened to, heard, and validated can be tremendously healing. 
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