"Don't wait to apply, submit your request to access the incentive as soon as possible because, in addition to the income requirement, the timing factor also counts."
This is the appeal launched by the president of the National Council of the Order of Psychologists David Lazzari on the eve of the start of applications (in the dedicated section of the INPS website) for the psychologist bonus, from Monday 18 March until 31 May, for those who are residents in Italy and with ISEE not exceeding 50 thousand euros, for a maximum contribution of 1,500 euros per person only once for each year.
In Italy, recalls Lazzari, «according to our survey there are 5 million potential patients, that is, people who would like to turn to a psychologist-psychotherapist but do not have the economic resources to do so». And from the first data that emerged during the first edition of the bonus, women and those under 35 are the population groups that show the greatest hardship.
«We are not talking about the most serious disorders at the top of the pyramid, those which require treatments including pharmacological treatments, but - explains Lazzari to ANSA - those linked to the most widespread forms of discomfort, which concern anxiety, mood, adaptation disorders and development due to stress".
«In all these situations, early intervention - underlines Lazzari - turns into a very important form of prevention if you consider that up to 70% of these inconveniences, if not intercepted, turn into more serious pathologies, but also into a form of notable savings in economic terms". Hence the importance of the bonus. A measure which, says the president of the Council of the Order of Psychologists, «despite its limitations, is essential for providing an answer in terms of psychotherapy if we consider that today in the public only 3.5 people out of 100 receive a psychotherapeutic answer ».
(Unioneonline/lf)