Performing Well but not Appreciating it – A Trait Feature of Anorexia Nervosa

Duration: 19 mins Publication Date: 27 Feb 2024 Next Review Date: 27 Feb 2027 DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26371

Description

In this Papers Podcast, Professor Kerstin von Plessen discusses her co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Performing well but not appreciating it – A trait feature of anorexia nervosa’.

Learning Objectives

1. What is currently known about the relationship between perfectionism and anorexia nervosa.
2. Insight into a novel behavioural method for measuring perfectionism and why it is important to look beyond self-evaluation reports.
3. What makes self-evaluation reports limited in comparison to the novel behavioural method.
4. The implications of participants, who have recovered from anorexia nervosa, having evaluated their performances significantly more negatively than their respective controls.
5. Implications of findings from clinicians and child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) professionals.

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JCPP Advances

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