Fars Health Group:In today’s modern world, although the comfort of people has increased with the growth of various technologies and various amenities and services, but peace and having a calm mind and away from the various daily tensions of today’s people are lost.
If we take a thoughtful and careful look at the society and the individual and interpersonal exchanges of people of different ages, we can feel the fact that the psyche of the people has undergone a transformation and the psychological balance has been disturbed, and it is as if many people are like a gas station. who are a little watcher of a flame to ignite!
From this day on, the need for counseling and receiving psychological services is very important, and day by day this need and request is felt more and more by different sections of the society. Today, May 9, is the psychologist’s day, and the attention and sensitization of the society and the guardians of people’s health to It is important to get easy and cheap services.
According to the head of the Iranian Psychological Organization, nearly 60% of people suffer from one of the mental disorders
With these conditions and requirements that the society has towards receiving psychological and counseling services, the tariffs and rates of receiving these services are high and beyond the financial capacity of the majority of the society, so that many people, even though they need the services of receiving psychological services and conducting individual counseling and family etc., because of the high price of this service, they prohibit it; Meanwhile, according to the head of the Iranian Psychological Organization, nearly 60% of people suffer from one of the mental disorders.
Masoud has been in trouble with his wife for a long time and there are many arguments every day! This has troubled the couple and the people around them, but finally it is agreed with Masoud’s middle father to go to a mental clinic to consult and listen to the words of a counselor and psychologist, but the astronomical price of these services is such that Masoud and his wife did not go to Counseling office, they get back, because they have to pay several million for several counseling sessions with a thumb account!
This short narrative is the mood of many people who refer and need counseling and psychological services to these centers.
According to the announcement of the Psychology and Counseling System Organization, this year, the rate for 45-minute consultation and receiving psychological services with a senior psychology expert is 230 thousand Tomans, and consultation with a psychologist is 270 thousand Tomans.
This is despite the fact that in many clinics and psychological counseling offices, these tariffs are not observed and sometimes services are provided at 3 times the price and even more!
MHamad Hatami, head of the country’s psychology and counseling system organization He had announced the formation of a working group to promote mental health and also the president’s order to cover psychological and counseling services in the country.
Special order for psychological services to be insured
According to Hatami, after numerous consultations with the Ministries of Health, the Parliament, the First Vice President and the President himself, the President finally ordered the Minister of Health to cover counseling and psychological services under the universal and supplementary insurance. In such a situation, citizens will pay only 40% of the amount of psychological and counseling services.
The prevention budget is less than one percent of the health system budget
The head of the Psychological System Organization added: “An important issue that should be considered in the law of the 7th Development Plan is the issue of prevention, and direct budgets should be considered for it. Now even 10% of the budget is considered for cultural programs, but unfortunately, the prevention budget is not enough.” It is below one percent of the health system budget.
About one percent of the budget of the Ministry of Health is spent on social and mental health
He noted: According to published reports, more than 95% of the budget of the health system was spent on providing health care services with a physical health approach, and only 5%, and even according to some reports, about 1% of the budget of the Ministry of Health, was spent on a category called Social and mental health.
Also, not long ago, the head of the Organization of Psychological and Counseling System of the country announced the formation of a working group in the Supreme Council of Health Insurance for the insurance coverage of psychological and counseling services in 1402.
Regarding the establishment of basic and supplementary insurances for psychological and counseling services in 1402, Hatami stated: The Supreme Council of Health Insurance has formed a working group to establish basic insurances for psychological services and this working group is working on this matter.
The basic insurance for psychological and counseling services is established for 1402
Stating that the necessary standards for this work will be determined by the said working group, he continued: It seems that this working group has reached definite results and they have given an answer to the president that, God willing, the basic insurance for psychological and counseling services will be established for the year 1402.
According to the head of the psychology system organization, the vice president of health insurance of social security sent a letter to the psychology system organization to announce the names of psychologists and counselors along with their specialty code, and we also sent the names of licensed people.
The Supreme Council of Health Insurance is responsible for the non-insurance of psychological services
In response to the question whether it can be said for sure that the basic insurance for psychological and counseling services will be established for 1402?, Hatami clarified: The acceleration in this matter is related to the Supreme Council of Health Insurance and insurance organizations. Therefore, if this does not happen in 1402, the reason is related to the Supreme Council of Health Insurance and insurance organizations.
This is despite several calls to the head of the psychology and counseling system organization to learn about the latest implementation status of the law on psychological and counseling services being covered by insurance, unfortunately he refused to answer.
The last word is;Having mental health is the need of every individual, family and society, and people in the society have the right to follow up their mental treatment under the supervision of a psychological specialist, if they suffer from mental and emotional turmoil due to the adversities of life, like a doctor for physical diseases, but paying high fees for counseling and The lack of insurance coverage of these services is the Achilles heel of mental health, and the guardians of the mental health of the society should take urgent action in this regard.
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