The Cabin Chiang Mai defines relapse prevention as tools and techniques used to help people with drug, alcohol or process addictions. You will learn how to cope with any difficulties you have during your recovery. You will also learn to effectively manage and overcome any stressors or triggers in your environment that may cause you to fall back into active addiction.

What you will Learn about Relapse Prevention in Rehab

During your addiction treatment programme you will be involved in various therapies and activities that will help you to learn about relapse prevention. Our rehab will help you to understand your addiction and everything that may have helped to cause it. Once these things are recognised, we will show you what you can do to change these ways or behaviours. Cognitive behavioural therapy and group therapy are both excellent for teaching new tools and techniques to help with situations in the real world that may cause a relapse. While you are at our drug and alcohol rehab, there will be a lot of focus on the importance of relapse prevention. You will do certain activities during your therapy treatments that will help you gain knowledge about preventing relapse and build a relapse prevention plan before you leave.

What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?

It is advised that all clients who graduate from our addiction treatment programme have a relapse prevention plan in place, and we will help you build one during your addiction treatment. This is essentially a plan that you create when you are feeling good in addiction recovery that prepares for your situations where you may find it difficult not to relapse. A relapse prevention plan usually includes the following: