Making A Decision In Recovery: From Research Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Dr. Joe Terhaar is a practicing licensed mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, and certified chemical dependency counselor with over 30 years experience in drug prevention, intervention, and treatment. He has served as an expert witness for courts litigating issues of diagnosis and family treatment practices, is a Full Member of the Association of Intervention Specialists and a Board Registered Interventionist using eight strategies in helping families. He was awarded a rare dissertation research grant to study family intervention by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 2001 contributing to the science of family intervention, is an educator and trainer of addiction professionals since 1983, and NAADAC Education Provider since 2006. He is a Washington state-approved marriage and family licensure supervisor since 2008, and author of research-grounded concepts, skills, and objectives for the articulation of family intervention granted a provisional patent in 2005. He received a Graduate Fellowship Award at Eastern Washington University in 1979, and is listed in Who's Who Among Students In American Colleges and Universities, 1976-77. He is the author of training curricula for school teachers, social workers, and drug counselors used across the U.S. from Seattle to Georgia, and trains intervention specialists from Alaska to Florida. Most importantly, Dr. Joe cares a great deal about those affected by addiction.