Joseph Pickard, Ph.D., LCSW is an associate professor in the School of Social Work. He completed his Ph.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis and received his M.S.W. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Joe is an LCSW and has worked with substance abusing clients, with older adults, and as a school social worker. His research interests include substance use disorders, aging and mental health, help-seeking patterns of older adults, aging in place, religiosity/spirituality and aging, and counseling services provided by clergy to older adults. Joe was a Hartford Doctoral Fellow while at Washington University in Saint Louis, and he was a Hartford Faculty Scholar and the primary investigator (PI) on The Clergy Counseling Project (CCP), which examined counseling services provided by clergy to older adults in St. Louis City and County. Joe is the co-principal investigator, along with Sharon Johnson of UMSL and Monica Matthieu of SLU, on a three-year grant from SAMHSA ($881,510). He teaches classes in: Substance Use and Related Disorders, Generalist Social Work Practice, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and Theory and Practice with Older Adults. Joe is happy to be a member of the School of Social Work faculty, and he really enjoys working with the University of Missouri-St. Louis students.