Question 11405 — health

Summary

Ms. Béatrice Roullaud draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the very insufficient number of child psychiatrists in France to deal with the growing discomfort of young people. While mental health has been declared a Great National Cause in 2025, access to care remains very poor in psychiatry. Many adolescents and young adults remain in great suffering, especially since the covid-19 pandemic. Knowing that 75% of psychological disorders develop before the age of 25, it is crucial to identify and better respond to this problem among younger people to implement a real prevention approach and offer appropriate support. In middle and high school, more than one in two students express recurrent discomfort and one in four high school students report having had suicidal thoughts at during the year. Among young adults, depressive episodes, suicide attempts or suicidal thoughts are also on the rise. However, medical and social establishments welcoming children with mental disabilities or behavioral disorders are today faced with an acute shortage of child psychiatry professionals. This lack of child psychiatrists is also obvious in Ms. MP and the latter relays the helplessness of parents faced with the difficulty of obtaining an appointment for their child. As an illustration, she can cite the case of an 8-year-old child who, after two years of waiting following the closure of the CMPEA in Lizy-sur-Ourcq and the attachment to the medical-psychological center (CMP) in Jouarre, was finally received in September 2025 for a preliminary assessment. But it was then indicated to him that continued support was not assured. This CMP is indeed encountering operating difficulties due to the retirement of one of the two psychologists, resulting in a risk of closure and interruptions in patient monitoring. Strengthening the resources dedicated to child psychiatry constitutes a major investment in prevention, allowing many young people to avoid subsequent hospitalizations in psychiatric establishments. Also, during the debate on the social security financing bill for 2026, the MP tabled an amendment aimed at allocating part of the overall funding allocation to increasing the provision of child psychiatric care which was unfortunately declared inadmissible. She therefore asks him what measures she intends to put in place so that the mental suffering of young people find an appropriate response to the scale of the challenge.

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