title: Focus on perfectionism in female adolescent anorexia nervosa.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Program (EDP), Child & Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS), School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hurst
authors.affiliation: School of Applied Psychology and Menzies Health Institute of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zimmer-Gembeck
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000150:complications*
keywords: CBT; anorexia nervosa; family based treatment; perfectionism