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Review: Assessment, development, and treatment of childhood perfectionism: a systematic review
Author(s) -
Morris Lottie,
Lomax Claire
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12067
Subject(s) - perfectionism (psychology) , psychopathology , scopus , psychology , context (archaeology) , web of science , clinical psychology , systematic review , psychotherapist , medline , psychiatry , medicine , meta analysis , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Background In the adult literature, perfectionism has been linked with psychopathology and poor treatment outcomes, leading to perfectionism‐focussed therapies. The child and adolescent perfectionism literature is comparatively sparse. Method A systematic search of five electronic databases (Web of Knowledge, APA Psyc NET , PubMed, ERIC /ProQuest, and Scopus) was conducted to identify studies of perfectionism in children and adolescents, in the context of psychopathology. Results The search identified 133 studies, 84 of which discussed perfectionism as a correlate of mental health problems. These studies were briefly synthesised, with the systematic review focussing on evaluating papers on the development ( n = 23), assessment ( n = 19), and treatment ( n = 7) of perfectionism. Conclusion Treatment studies did not reflect the phenomenology of perfectionism found in this review.