Focus on perfectionism in female adolescent anorexia nervosa

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Hurst, Kim
Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie
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2015
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Objective: Maudsley Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for anorexia is successful for between 50 and 80% of adolescents. To improve this success rate, various approaches to augmenting the treatment have been proposed. Method: In this study, we describe the treatment of three girls with FBTaugmented with a module focusing on perfectionism, defined as personally prescribed or socially derived irrational and rigid expectations and exceedingly high standards of self performance. Multiple times across the 1 year of treatment, girls completed the measures of perfectionism and other outcomes. Results: The results were optimistic for remission, and showed reductions in girls? perfectionism and obsessional and rigid thinking.

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International Journal of Eating Disorders

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48

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7

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

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