Your Journey to Wellness Begins Here
The Dawn’s Treatment Roadmap
Our Commitment to Your Healing Journey
At The Dawn, we believe, as is vastly evidenced by scientific research, that at the core of all mental health issues, including substance use disorders and maladaptive behaviours lies a complex interplay of factors, with trauma and adverse life experiences playing a significant role. Many a time, people are unaware of this type of trauma as it is often rooted in subtle childhood experiences such as bullying or emotional neglect. We therefore utilise a trauma-informed, person-centred treatment approach that addresses both presenting issues and deeper healing needs.
What does this mean? It means that we will take your whole picture into account – your presenting issues, underlying issues, past experiences, relationships, environment and family dynamics to develop a customised treatment plan based on what you would personally like to achieve in treatment. Your treatment plan will be guided by our Treatment Roadmap which outlines each step of the treatment process, ensuring clarity on the purpose and progress of every phase.
Recognising the importance of a paced healing process in order to achieve a truly sustainable recovery, our Treatment Roadmap ensures that you do not rush through any part of your treatment. While initial symptoms may be alleviated in 4 to 5 weeks, addressing your underlying issues is a much more complex process that demands deep yet careful exploration. We do this through a treatment programme that blends advanced psychological modalities with wellness practices. We focus on leveraging your unique strengths to foster resilience and empowerment.
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How Does The Dawn’s Treatment Roadmap Work?
Your personalised treatment journey is carefully prepared from the moment your booking is confirmed, we ensure that you are supported even before you arrive.
Pre-Arrival Preparation
Before you arrive at The Dawn, we take careful steps to ensure that your transition into our care is as seamless as possible. This Pre-arrival Phase involves detailed preliminary assessments that not only set clear expectations but also begin the crucial process of building a therapeutic alliance with your Primary Therapist.
This thorough preparatory work is not a common practice in other treatment centres – setting The Dawn apart and offering several benefits to you, the client.
Key Activities
- Conduct initial assessments to understand client needs.
- Provide an overview of the treatment plan and the Treatment Roadmap.
- Form a therapeutic alliance between client and their Primary Therapist.
- Information gathering from other relevant parties – i.e your current/previous therapists/physicians, and families (with client’s consent).
Benefits
- By engaging with you early, we gain a deeper understanding of your unique needs and challenges.
- It allows us to tailor your treatment plan more effectively, ensuring that it aligns perfectly with your recovery goals.
- You begin to establish a strong bond and trust with your Primary Therapist from the outset which is crucial to your progress in treatment.
- This phase potentially shortens the Stabilisation Phase of your treatment.
Phase 1: Stabilisation (Weeks 1 to 2)
Once you are stabilised and ready to fully benefit from therapy, this phase allows you to engage in targeted techniques specifically designed to address your presenting issues. Mental health clients will work on strategies to manage their unique stressors that they can then use in everyday life. Addiction clients will learn tools to navigate their usual triggers and cravings. By focusing on improving your emotional resilience, you will begin to see significant progress. This stage of treatment is crucial because it sets the foundation for deeper healing.
Key Activities
- Finalisation of your personalised treatment plan outlining your recovery goals and expectations.
- Community integration to enhance recovery through establishing supportive social connections.
- For addiction clients – withdrawal management involving medical supervision to ensure comfort and safety.
- Psychiatric assessment and medication review to optimise mental health support.
- For addiction clients – introduction to local support groups to foster encouragement and share recovery experiences.
Phase 2: Treatment
Phase 2A: Addressing Presenting Issues (Weeks 2 to 5)
For clients who are immediate intakes and those who arrive with aspects of their booking still to be finalised, we will conduct the pre-arrival activities during this phase.
Since most of our clients are flying in from abroad, it usually takes a couple of weeks before they can fully engage in their treatment programme – as it takes a while to adjust to life at our facility and integrate into the community. For clients contending with substance use disorders that require detoxification – the most demanding withdrawal symptoms will usually subside in a couple of weeks.
By engaging with our Pre-arrival Process, you might expedite this Stabilisation Phase, allowing you to move forward more quickly with your treatment.
Key Activities
- Facilitating the transformation of negative core beliefs into positive ones.
- Enhancing interpersonal skills to improve communication and relationships.
- Strengthening emotional regulation through targeted therapeutic techniques.
- Comprehensive engagement in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Psychoeducation.
- Encouraging family involvement to support and enrich the client’s treatment journey.
- Start building your Continuing Care Plan, which includes strategies for coping in daily life that are developed and refined throughout your treatment.
Phase 2B: Addressing Underlying Issues (Weeks 5 to 12)
Now that you are stabilised and have gained the necessary tools from the earlier phases, you are ready to delve into the underlying issues that led to your condition – this critical phase is the heart of your recovery journey. By engaging in trauma-specific therapies, you will explore the deep-rooted causes of your issues in a structured and safe environment, without risk of vulnerability. Here, you begin the truly transformative work of healing, equipped to face and overcome the core issues that have impacted your life.
Key Activities
Participating in The Dawn’s Trauma Programme made up of group sessions and Individual Trauma Therapy utilising the following modalities:
- Trauma-Focused Psychoeducation groups to provide insights and strategies.
- Utilising trauma-focused CBT to reframe and manage traumatic memories.
- Applying Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) to alleviate emotional distress from traumatic experiences.
- Engaging in Narrative Therapy to reshape personal stories and recovery paths.
- Participating in Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) to help release deep muscular patterns of stress.
- Facilitating Family Therapy to support and integrate family dynamics in healing.
- Exposure Therapy may also be included to methodically reduce fear and avoidance behaviours related to trauma.
It is essential to commit to a minimum of 8 weeks in this phase, as the ethics of trauma care emphasise not only opening up traumatic experiences but also ensuring a stable transition out of the facility.
Phase 3: Consolidation and Transition
Step-Down Programme (After week 9)
Returning to your regular life after the safety and support of residential treatment is the most challenging phase of early recovery. The Step Down Programme at The Dawn Rehab Thailand is designed to ease this transition. It offers professional support within a supportive, drug and alcohol-free, semi-controlled environment. Here, clients reside on the premises yet enjoy the freedom to come and go as they please. This allows you to live independently, venture out unsupervised, and reintegrate into the world at your own pace.
Key Activities
- Clients engage in volunteer work, hobbies, fitness activities, and pursue continued education to foster personal growth and maintain healthy habits.
- Clients continue receiving psychotherapy to deepen understanding and resolve ongoing challenges.
- Life coaching assists in setting future goals and planning life post-treatment.
- For addiction clients – participation in recovery-focused groups helps sustain progress, offering ongoing support and community connection.
Rehab Discharge Planning Checklist (Final Week of Treatment)
The last week is dedicated to ensuring that you have a robust plan in place to support your continued progress and well-being in your everyday life. We work closely with you to develop a comprehensive strategy that addresses your specific needs, equipping you with the tools and resources necessary to maintain the positive changes you have achieved and to manage any future challenges effectively.
Key Activities
- Finalising your Continuing Care Plan, focusing on mitigating stressors and triggers, as well as providing you with appropriate resources in your country.
- Begin participation in The Dawn’s Online Aftercare group prior to your discharge.
- Become a member of The Dawn’s Alumni Family to access the resources and benefits of our Alumni Programme.
HEAR FROM OUR PAST CLIENTS
“It’s probably one of the most difficult things you have to do during your recovery period, but it’s the most powerful thing you could possibly do for yourself”
Olivia
from UK
"My addiction was taking over my entire being, and I was losing myself”
Jessica
from Australia
“I feel happier, I feel more confident. I actually love myself for the first time in 20 years.”
Christine
from Australia
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