Launched on April 5, 2022, the “Mon Parcours Psy” system (formerly called “Mon Psy”) wanted to provide a response to the explosion of mental health problems after the Covid-19 pandemic and make consultations with psychologists accessible. to the greatest number. According to the Ministry of Health published on March 3, 90,642 patients would have benefitedof which 71% are women.
What does the device provide? “Mon Parcours Psy” allows people suffering from “mild to moderate mental disorders” to benefit from eight sessions per year with the psychologist, fully reimbursed by health insurance, mutual or complementary health. These consultations last 30 minutes and are paid 30 euros. In one year, 372,547 sessions were recorded, for an average duration of 4.1 sessions per patient. In total, 2,200 volunteer psychologists have registered on the platform and are contracted to date.
But the device is not suitable for all the profession. “Seven or eight sessions reimbursed, it’s not enoughalready indicated Cyrille le Jamtel, psychologist and leader of the M3P association (Manifesto of Clinical Psychologists and Psychotherapist Psychologists) to Top Health in March 2022. Some patients take months to get started.”
A “rapid ramp-up” of the program, really?
If after a year the Ministry of Health evokes a “rapid ramp-up” of this device, the professionals concern them rather speak of a failure. Indeed, according to a franceinfo count, more than 50,000 professionals would be eligible for it but boycott it and refuse to commit to it. The reason ? “All the terms and conditions are to be reviewed from top to bottom: the prescription, the eligibility criteria, the number of sessions, the duration, the pricing”denounces Florent Simon, general secretary of the national union of psychologists.
For her part, Camille Mohoric-Faedi, founder of the Collectif Manifeste Psy, made up of 8,600 psychologists, denounces the “real flop” of the device. In one year, it has only affected 0.13% of French people, of which only 10% of precarious publicthe population initially targeted by “Mon Parcours Psy”.
“These 50 million budget which were put this year in “My Psy Course” could have been put in 200 posts of psychologist in the public institutions, which would have made it possible to decrease these waiting lists in the medico-psychological centers, which increase more and more”she said at the microphone of franceinfo.
While the collective demands thepure and simple repeal of “My Psy Course”IThe Ministry of Health should carry out its assessment no later than the end of 2024.
Sources:
- Ministry of Health
- “My Psy Course”: “It was useless”, criticize the opponents of the device, a year after its launch, franceinfoApril 5, 2023
