Joe Pickard, Ph.D

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.

Courses Taught

Generalist Social Work Practice
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Substance Use Disorders and Social Work Practice

Education

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis (2004)
MSW, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1994)
Education Certification, University of Missouri-St. Louis (1990)
BA, Southwest Texas State University (1988)

Recent Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Pickard, J.G., Van den Berk-Clark, C. & Matthieu, M.M., (2021). Age and medication-assisted treatment among veterans seeking treatment for opioid use disorder at non-veterans health administration facilities. Military Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usab242

Van den Berk-Clark, C., Pickard, J.G., Davis, D., & Scherrer, J. (2021). The role of impulsive decision making on health behavior related to cardiovascular disease risk among older adults with hypertension. Geriatric Nursing. 47. [In Press]

Van den Berk-Clark, C., Pickard, J.G., & Drallmeier, T. (2021). The role of age and opioid agonist treatment on substance use treatment completion in the United States. Aging and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1925223

Pickard, J.G., Williams, S.L., & Johnson S.D. (2019) The relationship of public and private religiosity to African American women caregivers’ use of alcohol for coping with CV - Pickard 2 caregiving burden. Aging and Mental Health,pp. 1-8.DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1699020

Pickard, J.G., Johnson, S.D., & Shen, H.W. (2019). African American and European American clergy’s counseling of older adults. Review of Religious Research, 61, pp. 221–234.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-019-00372-3

Williams, S.L., Pickard, J.G., & Johnson, S.D. (2019). An Examination of the Relationship between Religious Beliefs, Behaviors, Commitment, and Connection and Addiction among African American Women. Social Work and Christianity. 46(3), 7–26. https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v46i3.81

Pickard, J.G., Sacco, P., Van den Berk-Clark, C. & Cabrera-Nguyen, E. (2018). The Effect of Legal Mandates on Substance Use Disorder Treatment Completion among Older Adults. Aging and Mental Health, 24(3), 497-503, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1544209.

Johnson, S.D., Williams, S.L, & Pickard, J.G. (2016). Trauma, religion, and social support among African American women. Social Work and Christianity. 43(1), 60-73.

See Dr. Pickard's CV for a complete list of publications.

Research Interests

Dr. Pickard's research interests include treatment of 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.