Focus on perfectionism in female adolescent anorexia nervosa

ObjectiveMaudsley 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. MethodIn 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. ResultsThe results were optimistic for remission, and showed reductions in girls? perfectionism and obsessional and rigid thinking. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2015; 48:936-941).