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Resourcefulness for Recovery Inventory
 (RRI)

The Resourcefulness for Recovery Inventory (RRI) is applicable to a myriad of adverse situations and conditions wherein individuals must cope or adjust. With obvious applicability in disease management and recovery, the RRI should also prove useful in assessing and treating patients confronting psychological stresses such as the death of a loved one, difficult divorce or other unfavorable life situations. The RRI is a 239 item, multi-purpose self-report questionnaire based on a symmetrical and bipolar conceptualization of an individual’s response to stress. Adversity often triggers specific behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses which may be either adaptive or maladaptive coping responses in a variety of domains assessed by the RRI.

1. Control Over vs Being Controlled

2. Positive vs Negative Cognitions & Beliefs

3. Intentionality vs Lack of Direction

4. Broadening Awareness vs Being Uninformed

5. Healthful Attention vs Physical Neglect/Inattention

6. Positive vs Negative Relationship with HCP

7. Positive vs Negative Emotion Management

8. Positive vs Negative Expectations/Hopes (Perspective)

9. Perceived Choice vs Restricted Options

10. Time Focus: Past vs Present/Future

11. Self-Responsibility vs Dependency

12. Adequate vs Inadequate Stress Management

13. Acceptance vs Denial/Nonacceptance

14. Communication vs Withdrawl/Alexithymia

15. Social Isolation vs Social Integration & Support

16. Integration vs Disintegration

17. Minimizing vs Maximize Loss

18. Fundamental Values & Core Beliefs

The RRI was designed from a rehabilitative perspective utilizing both CBT and imagery-based directed therapies (e.g., hypnosis). We believe that adaptive behavior results from a person’s ability to override or compensate for illness, physical weakness, real-world and/or or emotional problems, with the goal of minimizing their impact and maximizing desirable outcomes or optimal behaviors related to coping and adjustment.

• Mean and Median RRI full scale alpha reliability >= .90 (N=20).

The authors and publisher (CogniSyst, Inc. is owned by Lyle M. Allen III) of the RRI have an enviable track record developing instruments used for assessment and treatment in rehabilitation, chronic pain and symptom validity/malingering.

CogniSyst, Inc. is seeking additional clinical research collaborators to aid in the further development of this promising instrument. Qualified sites will also be given access to other assessments published by CogniSyst on a case by case basis, such as the WMT, CARB, PAB, MCI, MHI and other fine instruments.