Research

Recent scientific advances suggest that traditional therapy approaches are suboptimal, leading to unnecessarily high costs for employers and prolonged suffering for employees.

The Cost of Absenteeism to Employers is High

€250-€400

total costs per employee p/day

for employees on sick leave, including wage, replacement costs, hiring and counselling

53

days

is the average sick-leave duration due to mental health issues

€18.500

average costs

for employees on sick leave due to mental health issues

Social Prescribing Research

A 2024 systematic review of 37 studies (totaling 9,483 participants) found that people’s well-being increases significantly when they work in groups on pro-social or ecological projects, such as helping the elderly or planting trees. (Source)
A positive feedback loop is initiated when people help others. Helping others makes us feel good (the Warm Glow Effect), enhancing our self-respect and self-image, which in turn motivates us to care for others even more. (Source)

Return-To-Work Research

A group of Dutch researchers, among who Prof. Dr. Wilmar Schaufeli, found that people working on a group project in which therapy is integrated is a more effective treatment than current traditional psychotherapy and re-integration approaches. Full return to work happened 65 days earlier and partial return to work happened 12 days earlier. The associated cost savings were $5,275 Dollar per employee. Furthermore, mental health issues improved, without any negative side effects (source). Improvements of more than 33% in depressions scores and quality of life were later found here source and here source.
A 2020 study also found good results (source): Significantly more patients returned fully to work in the intervention group (41.4%) than the control group (26.3%). Effect sizes for self-efficacy scores, depression and anxiety were large in the intervention group (d = 1.28, 1.01, 1.58), and significantly lower in the control group (d = 0.60, 0.14, 0.45). Significantly more patients in the treatment group than control group recovered from depression (54.1% vs. 12.8%) and anxiety (50.0% vs.10.6%).