Table 1.

Stages of developing the aboriginal resilience and recovery questionnaire

Focus Group One	Draft item development	Focus Group Two	Psychometric analyses
Identifying processes that enable Aboriginal help-seeking clients to experience healing and recovery from trauma Identification of 75 relevant strengths and protective factors	Review of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal measures used in research about resilience, healing and recovery from trauma Development of 75 draft items for focus group participants	Reviewing draft items Modifying items Omitting items Developing new items	Structure interviews with 81 Aboriginal help-seeking clients Psychometric analyses of ARRQ structure