Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Red = Bad Ass


Just in case anybody wasn't aware, I am married to a pretty bad ass guy. A couple of years ago, he came up with a form of treatment for therapy called Emotional Fitness Rehabilitation (EFR). It combines working out/fitness with mental health. It teaches you tools to help "intervene" with your mental health while working on your fitness, giving yourself ways to help work through your thought process. He has been toiling over this form of treatment for the past couple years. He had a few buddies that wanted to get involved with a pilot study for it, which Weber State funded thanks to a professor friend of Jeff's. We call him the old man... :)
Anyways, in the study they took the kids from YHA (a group home for juvi sex offenders) and brought them up to WSU gym where they were shown the exercises to do, and the tools to help with the mental health part of it. This study lasted for months, and it was very, VERY time consuming for them. Well the study is now over, and the results are in.
EFR is proven to work and be a productive from of therapy at 99%!! So where do they go from here... well a larger study will probably be picked up, and they will probably be published in a journal! And then the sky's the limit as far as ways to spread it around.
I am So incredibly proud of my husband. He is SO incredibly motivated and his brain is always on OVERDRIVE thinking of the next thing and/or how to make his current project better. He is truly amazing to me, I mean he pioneered this form of therapy and came up with all tools needed for to make it work between mental health and physical health. This whole undertaking of a project is literally his baby.
So kudos to my fabulous husband for pursuing his dreams and never settling for mediocre.
I LOVE YOU RED

PS - I Have all my Christmas decor up and it looks FABULOUS!

6 comments:

mamasteph said...

Go Jeff! We think you are pretty awesome too!
P.S. Where are your pictures of your decorations lady?!?! :)

Shelley Patterson said...

That's great! Good job Jeff!

Trey said...

People probably think because he's jacked he's not brilliant. Don't worry I get that all the time too ;)

Mamma Hen said...

Way to go Jeff...keep up the great work!

TheKillerJ said...

;)

Thanks wife!

The Bombic said...

That's awesome that the results were so positive. And I'm also way impressed by Jeff's hard work. You'll have to let us know when it's published. :)

P.S. And Trey, people also say that about me. :)