Alcoholism biography stephanie brown
I entered my own recovery when my family was still drinking and both my parents were severe alcoholics.
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Unraveling the Mystery of Personal Family Recovery: An Interview with Stephanie Brown, PhD
In recent years, there have been growing calls to shift the organizing center of the addiction and mental health fields from pathology and intervention paradigms to a recovery paradigm and to begin this evolution with a recovery-focused research agenda.
Dr. Stephanie Brown is a pioneer who has advocated this focus on resilience and recovery. I consider her developmental models of personal and family recovery as among the most important in the modern era of addiction treatment.
In this interview conducted in late , Dr. Brown talks about her life, her work and her legacy.
Bill White: Stephanie, your Master’s thesis at California State University and your doctoral dissertation at the California School of Professional Psychology both focused on alcoholism.
How and when did you decide on this focus of study?
Stephanie Brown: I entered graduate school for my Master’s within a month of rec