STEPHANIE BROWN: FULL BIOGRAPHY

STEPHANIE BROWN, PhD, is a clinician, teacher, author, researcher and consultant in the field of addiction. She founded the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center in 1977 and served as its director for eight years, developing the dynamic model of alcoholism recovery and its application to the long-term treatment of all members of an alcoholic family. Dr. Brown served on the California State Alcoholism Advisory Board and was a founding member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA.)

She received the Bronze Key Award (1983) and the Humanitarian Award (1984) from the National Council on Alcoholism and the Community Service Award from the California Society for the Treatment of Alcoholism and other Drug Dependencies in 1986. In 1991 she received an Academic Specialist Award from the U.S.I.A. to teach in Poland. More recently, she received the Norman Zinberg Memorial Award from Harvard University (2000), the Clark Vincent Award from the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (2001), and the Janet Geringer Woititz award from Health Communications, Inc. (2005).

Dr. Brown is the author of: Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery (Wiley, 1985), Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective (Wiley, 1988), Adult Children of Alcoholics in Treatment (co-author, Health Communications, 1989) and Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1992). She is the Editor
of Treating Alcoholism (Jossey-Bass, 1995), and co-author of The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (Guilford, 1999), and
The Family Recovery Guide (New Harbinger, 2000). She is co-editor of
The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women (Jossey-Bass, 2002).
Her latest book is A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation (Hazelden, 2004). A companion workbook was published
in the fall, 2006.  She has also completed two training videos (Jaylen Productions, 1997), and a video, Stages of Family Recovery, with Hazelden in 2005.  

Dr. Brown is a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience. She is an internationally recognized expert on the trauma
and the treatment of alcoholics and their families and is especially well known for her pioneering work in the theory and treatment of adult children of alcoholics.

Dr. Brown is a Research Associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI)
in Palo Alto, where she co-directs The Family Recovery Research Project. She is also Consulting Director for the Family Treatment Program at the Mayflower Treatment Center in Marin County and Consulting Director for the Institute on Addictions at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. She lectures widely, maintains a private practice, and directs The Addictions Institute, an outpatient clinic, in Menlo Park, California.