PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast
Jun 16, 2026 · 9 min · 6 segments
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers cultural concepts of distress. The learning objectives for this episode are as follows: 1…
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Sarah AbrahamsonHost
Angad SinghHost
Grant YaoHost
[gentle music] Hello and welcome to Psyched, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners by medical learners.
In this short episode, we'll be introducing to you cultural concepts of distress.
These are constructs introduced in the DSM-V to help clinicians understand how culture shapes the way people experience, express, and explain psychological suffering.
This episode will give you a practical framework for recognizing common cultural concepts of distress, how they relate to psychiatric diagnoses, and why they matter in practice.
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[gentle music] Hello and welcome to Psyched, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners by medical learners.
In this short episode, we'll be introducing to you cultural concepts of distress.
These are constructs introduced in the DSM-V to help clinicians understand how culture shapes the way people experience, express, and explain psychological suffering.
This episode will give you a practical framework for recognizing common cultural concepts of distress, how they relate to psychiatric diagnoses, and why they matter in practice.