Doctoral Internship - Addiction Medicine Recovery Services

Addiction Medicine & Recovery Services (AMRS) Track

12-month track *(candidates who apply and are accepted into this track will complete their internship within this track for the duration of the training year)*

The Addiction Medicine and Recovery Services (AMRS) Track offers doctoral interns the opportunity to work on a dynamic and skilled multidisciplinary team that utilizes treatment strategies incorporating elements of motivational interviewing (MI), psychoeducation, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), compassion-focused therapy (CFT), and brief psychodynamic psychotherapy.

AMRS offers adult and adolescent early recovery services, ongoing recovery groups, harm reduction treatment, medication assisted treatment, and withdrawal management services on an outpatient basis. Over the course of the year, doctoral interns will gain expertise in utilizing evidence-based substance use and co-occurring diagnosis treatment modalities with patients of various ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds who present with a range of co-occurring psychiatric and medical diagnoses.

While doctoral interns in AMRS primarily work within a brief therapy model for individual treatment, they may offer long-term individual therapy to a couple of patients on their caseload where clinically indicated. Interns receive 3-4 new patients every week. Many of these patients then move on to an Early Recovery Group, however, some patients may need pre-treatment sessions that include motivational enhancement. Interns will also have an opportunity to facilitate psychoeducational, skills-based, and process-oriented groups.