Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Program

The Stanford University Addiction Medicine Fellowship, accredited by the ACGME and the American Board of Addiction Medicine, is a one-year, advanced fellowship opportunity in addiction medicine, open to physicians who have completed any ACGME-accredited residency. We provide state-of-the-art training in the treatment of patients with addiction, including detoxification, pharmacotherapy for addiction, abstinence-based recovery models, harm-reduction recovery models, motivational interviewing, 12-Step facilitation, consultation for medical and psychiatric hospital services, and psychosocial approaches to the treatment of patients with addiction and pain.

Social services internship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry serving children, families and transitional-aged youth with substance use, addiction and co-occurring mental health disorder through delivery of individual, family, group therapy and case management needs.   Interns train and learn to perform biopsychosocial assessments, client-centered treatment planning, and evidenced-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Relapse Prevention Seeking Safety, to treat clients and families.  Interns attend individual and group didactic supervision. 

The Stanford University Addiction Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, accredited by the American Psychological Association, is a one-year, advanced fellowship opportunity in clinical psychology and addiction medicine, open to psychologists who have completed an APA-accredited internship program. The Clinical Psychology Fellowship at Stanford serves as the culmination of training in psychology and is guided by the scientist-practitioner model. Postdoctoral fellows are offered diverse clinical experiences in assessment and treatment utilizing evidence-based treatments, rich didactics based on current empirical literature, opportunities for scholarly inquiry, supervision by Stanford faculty.