{"id":4289,"date":"2017-07-14T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:56:31","slug":"el-caso-madalyn-una-buena-practica-de-salud-mental-en-el-trabajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/2017\/07\/14\/el-caso-madalyn-una-buena-practica-de-salud-mental-en-el-trabajo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madalyn Case: A Best Practice for Workplace Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">As we are aware, <span style=\"color: #2289a3\"><strong>discussing mental health remains a taboo subject, and this is even more pronounced in the workplace environment<\/strong><\/span>. It is uncommon for an individual to request medical leave when their health issue is related to their mental well-being; in such cases, people typically opt to use their vacation days, when in reality this should not be the case. When we break a leg, we do not ask for vacation, do we? Medical leave is part of our rights when we are unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">This is something that <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">American Madalyn Parker<\/span><\/strong> knows very well. She has lived with anxiety since childhood and began taking medication during her university years, after an abusive relationship left her at risk of depression. That is why, a few days ago, she sent an email to her boss and her team justifying her absence for two days: <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">\"Hi team. I am taking today and tomorrow off to focus on my mental health. I hope to return next week rested and at one hundred percent.\"<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The best part of this conversation, which has gone viral in recent days, was <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">Ben Congleton's response\u2014Madalyn's boss and General Manager of the company<\/span><\/strong> where she works: \"Hi Madalyn, I just wanted to personally thank you for sending emails like this. Every time you do, I use it as a <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">reminder to use our medical leave for our mental health. I cannot believe this is not standard practice in all organizations.<\/span><\/strong> You are an example for all of us and you help eliminate the stigma so that we can all come to work giving our best.\"<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Undoubtedly an example of good mental health practice within the workplace. From De-mentes, <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">we hope that an increasing number of companies and organizations in both the public and private sectors will grant mental health the same seriousness and importance as physical health when it comes to requesting medical leave<\/span><\/strong>. This is a great way to combat stigma in a space where this issue is perhaps even more taboo than in others: the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2289a3;\">#EveryoneForMentalHealth<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Como sabemos, hablar de salud mental sigue siendo un tab\u00fa y m\u00e1s a\u00fan en el ambiente laboral. No es com\u00fan que una persona solicite un descanso m\u00e9dico cuando su problema de salud se relaciona con su mente. Te invitamos a conocer el caso excepcional de la estadounidense Madalyn Parker. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-articulos-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6652,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/6652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}