The health crisis has damaged the mental health of many French people, including the youngest. The “MonPsy” system, initiated by the government, and which offers 8 fully reimbursed sessions with a psychologist, will be operational from April 5.
- The “MonPsy” device will be operational on April 5
- It will offer eight psychologist sessions fully covered by health insurance
- This is the government response to the deterioration of the mental health of the French due to the health crisis
They are 1,000 to have volunteered, 1,000 psychologists who will participate from April 5 in the “MonPsy” operation which consists in offering all patients over 3 years old eight reimbursed psychotherapy sessions. This is the government’s response to the deterioration observed in the state of mental health of the French after two years of health crisis.
“This is considerable progress for access to psychological and psychic care in our country which will concern tens, hundreds of thousands of French people“, underlined the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announcing the date of the launch of this operation during an intervention on FranceInfo on March 16.
Eight sessions per year
Concretely, for any person, adult or child from 3 years old, it will be enough to be directed towards this device by a doctor (general practitioner, school doctor, pediatrician, geriatrician, etc.) to benefit from an appointment. you at one of the 1,000 partner psychologists. Up to 8 sessions per year, this coverage will be fully reimbursed by health insurance. In the event of additional sessions, the first will be reimbursed up to 40 euros and the following up to 30 euros.
It was in September 2021, at the end of the Assises de la psychiatrie, that Emmanuel Macron announced the next implementation of this system. The aim was to facilitate access to this type of care when the indicators on the state of the mental health of the French were red after months of pandemic, confinement, restrictions and social or economic difficulties encountered by all my categories of the population but which particularly affected young people.
Doubts about the effectiveness of the device
If the “MonPsy” operation will be fully operational from April 5, it does not however collect the support of the more than 78,000 health professionals who practice as psychologists. Many criticize the government initiative for the obligation to have to go through a doctor before benefiting from this orientation towards “psy” care and doubt the effectiveness of a number of sessions limited to 8 for a complete care by health insurance.”Professionals are not equipped to meet the needs of patients over such a period of time“, already underlined in September 2021 the therapist Benjamin Lubszynski.
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