“During the health crisis, benefit from sessions with a psychologist, free of charge, without paying any advance”: here is the promise of the site Student Psychic Health, launched by the government on Wednesday. Students have long been asking for help with mental distress that has been theirs since the start of the epidemic. Successive confinements and restrictions have plunged this population into solitude, sometimes coupled with great financial precariousness.
The platform in fact comes to concretize the implementation of the “psy checks” announced by Emmanuel Macron and implemented from February 1 in certain departments. This time by providing a list of professionals who can accommodate them throughout France, and by detailing the terms of the support program allowing them to obtain three free sessions with the psychologist. And more, if necessary, as promised the Minister of Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal.
Home page of the Student Psychic Health website
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The sessions are limited to 45 minutes, professionals also specify on the platform whether they are equipped for videoconference sessions. Be careful though: obtaining an appointment is not done with a simple click, and although the telephone numbers of psychologists appear on the site, students must first “consult the health of [leur] establishment or a general practitioner “. The whole in order to prove its status, but also to receive the advice of a first health professional and thus to estimate the needs in care.
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Limited offer. 2 months for 1 € without commitment
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A little more than 200 psychologists are currently listed. But they should be much more in the hours and days to come. According to Gladys Mondière, co-president of the French Federation of Psychologists and Psychology (FFPP), 1,270 psychologists have already registered on the site, she said in Parisian. A form, available via a site tab, facilitates the process, reserved for psychologists with at least three years of experience. The university health service (SSU) closest to the professional’s place of practice then examines the request. This will then pay each session on the basis of a price of 30 euros, two to three times lower than normal. The students do not advance any fees.
On the government side, the platform aims to relieve congestion in medico-psychological centers (CMP), which already offer free psychological and psychiatric consultations. Note that other resources exist for students. The site student-support.info, launched during the epidemic, lists all the existing psychological support services within the thirty French academies. Some well-known, like the university psychological assistance offices (BAPU), for medium and long-term support.
On social networks, a handful of students denounced the lack of clarity in the promises of psychological support made by the government and the Head of State. On RTL, Frédérique Vidal defended himself at the end of February, assuring that the “psy checks” had already benefited 5,000 students. However, the arrival of the site is greeted with some relief.
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