Les soignants face à la COVID-19 : le soutien médico-psychologique du groupe, une pratique de l’informel

In March 2020, the entire Begin army hospital was reorganised to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic. The hospital's psychiatry unit was requested by the heads of some services in order to prevent professional exhaustion by offering psychological support as close as possible of the mobilised teams. An original and innovating device named “psychological support mobile team” was set up and has been perpetuated over the successive waves. It has been including psychiatrists, psychologists and nurses of the psychiatry unit. This customised set up inspires itself of operational experience of the french army health service (SSA). This situational practice implies to graft on the service's life. It aims is to stimulate demand and to approach the group gradually. Responding to crisis situations invites us to reflect the group's support around several axes: the common ideal that carries its members and the collective psychopathological demonstrations. The group is a rampart that the mobile team has to approach with subtlety in order to circulating speech between peers and to mobilise its support function. The mobile team also has to be attentive to the ethical issues that such a pratice in a health crisis situation can induce.