Joseph Pickard

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 MSW from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Joe is an LCSW and has worked with substance abusing clients, older adults, and as a school social worker.

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 examines 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), Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Health Professions Student Training – An Inter-University Collaboration.

He recently completed gathering data for a project – Pilgrimage, Spirituality, and Personal Transformation (PSPT) – on which he is now publishing.