Terrance D. Olson

Terrance D. Olson is a emeritus professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University and served for a time as the chair of the Department of Family Sciences. He also taught at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He holds a PhD in marriage and family living from Florida State University. He also has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BYU. He is a Fellow at The Wheatley Institution at BYU.

Olson has written numerous articles and served on writing committees of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

He and his wife, Karen, are the parents of six children.

He has spoken on strengthening the family to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate and to sessions of the White House Conference on Families. He is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and was a member of the National Council on Family Relations from October 1967 to August 2013.