The government next to a febrile psychiatry sector. While the question of the mental health of young people has returned regularly in the news in recent weeks, the Ministry of Health presents this Wednesday, June 11, an action plan on psychiatry.
The program presented is articulated around three axes, and about fifteen measures, related to the detection of discomfort in a school environment and to strengthen the will of the psychiatrist profession, through a fluidification of the offer of care. On the financial side, however, there are no financial ads.
• Prevent, especially among young people
In the aspect of prevention, part of the ads are related to the school environment. At the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, each primary establishment in high school will have to have two “reference points” responsible for detecting possible disorders early. However, a point already presented by the Ministry of Education, whose specificities are still vague three months since the beginning of the school year.
“The period of greatest vulnerability, a hinge in mental health, are young people, especially 12 to 25 years,” said the Ministry of Health. The objective is to lead to “the 100 % training of school health personnel in early identification.”
• Strengthen and flow the supply of attention
The second part of the plan presented by the Ministry is related to the supply of attention, in the face of the observation of infractions and failures in the global offer. The detailed development axes are related to both hospital psychiatry, and the system of liberal psychologists. The Government plans to double the number of these professionals participating in the “My Psych Support” system.
In more general terms, the ambition shown is to infuse the culture of management of these evils in practices, which can also go through the provision of specific tools adapted to general professionals. One of the objectives is also allowing “monitoring” in the city of people after crisis episodes.
Finally, among the other planned measures, the regulation of cases of psychological anguish directly by emergency telephone lines (15/18), so that people can contact an attention offer, or with a correspondent formed in the field of psychiatry specifically. “
• Train more psychiatrists
Restructuring care? Softest and reorganization may not be enough to fill the gaps, the number of psychiatry professionals that are not needed.
Even before the specialization of doctors, the objective is to strengthen the knowledge of this specialty within the common trunk. The Ministry also wants to force students to make at least one internship in a dedicated service, with the aim of seeing that “vocations” are born.
“We need to rebuild and make this profession more attractive, equip and restore it its letters of nobility that it deserves,” explains the Ministry of Health, whose objective is the training of 600 interns in psychiatry per year by 2027, against 500 on average on average.
To improve the attractiveness, not to mention the pecuniary elements, the Government is in particular in an improvement in working conditions, particularly at the level of security, as well as in a decrease in administrative spots.
Source: BFM TV
