An appropriate and reactive response to the repeated waves of the COVID-19 pandemic by the national medico-psychological network (CUMP) in France.

Introduction: France has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety, depression, burn out and the high proportion of post-traumatic stress disorder proved to be the most expected troubles caused by this pandemic and the confinement. Medico-psychological emergency units (CUMP) have been solicited at the very early stage of the pandemic because CUMP units are very well known by the French government and systematically associated to emergency plans.

[Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder].

Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological traumas, whose cares are complex, need to be furthermore clarified since they recently became a major public health issue in the wake of the terrorists' attacks that struck France over the past three years. It is its temporality since the event which will determine the type of disorder which might appear thus its adequate processing treatment.

[The nurse within emergency medical-psychological units].

The growing recognition of post-traumatic stress disorders and the need to intervene early justifies the creation of emergency medical-psychological units. The nurse has a major role to play within these teams.

[Psychological debriefing and post-immediate psychotherapeutic intervention].

Psychological debriefing is a controversial treatment technique. In principle, many such treatments exist based on apparently indisputable conclusions which only assess the personal traumatic effect and neglect the collective impact, which is the original reason for the creation of this technique. Therefore, it is essential to take a look at the way in which debriefings are conducted, its indications, its limits and the psychodynamic processes at play.