PsychEd Shorts 14: Cultural Concepts of Distress

<p>Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers cultural concepts of distress.</p><p>The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:</p><ol><li><p>Define cultural concepts of distress and describe how they are framed in DSM-5</p></li><li><p>Differentiate cultural concepts of distress from psychiatric diagnoses</p></li><li><p>Appreciate the varied clinical takeaways from cultural concepts of distress</p></li></ol><p><strong>Hosts</strong>: Sara Abrahamson (MS3), Grant Yao (MS4), Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)</p><p><strong>Audio editing: </strong>Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)</p><p><strong>References</strong>:</p><p>1. Lewis-Fernández, R., &amp; Kirmayer, L. J. (2019). Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: Understanding symptom experience and expression in context. Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(4), 786-803.</p><p>2. Patel, R., Ashraf, A., Myers, N., &amp; Bhatt, N. (2025). Cultural Concepts of Distress: A Dive into Presentation and Avenues for Management. Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(7-9), 14.</p><p>For more PsychEd, follow us on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/psyched.podcast/">⁠⁠⁠⁠@psyched.podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>), Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PsychEdPodcast">⁠⁠⁠⁠PsychEd Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>), X (<a href="https://twitter.com/psychedpodcast">⁠⁠⁠⁠@psychedpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>), and Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/psychedpodcast.bsky.social">⁠⁠⁠⁠@psychedpodcast.bsky.social‬⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>). You can email us at <a href="mailto:psychedpodcast@gmail.com">⁠⁠⁠⁠psychedpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> and visit our website at<a href="http://psychedpodcast.org/">⁠⁠⁠⁠ psychedpodcast.org⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>.</p>