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’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12194).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:
- What is currently known about the relationship between perfectionism and anorexia nervosa.
- Insight into a novel behavioural method for measuring perfectionism and why it is important to look beyond self-evaluation reports.
- What makes self-evaluation reports limited in comparison to the novel behavioural method.
- The implications of participants, who have recovered from anorexia nervosa, having evaluated their performances significantly more negatively than their respective controls.
- Implications of findings from clinicians and child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) professionals.
In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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Kerstin Jessica von Plessen is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lausanne and head of division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Lausanne, the CHUV. Her research covers the range of psychopathology and that relate to the development of mental health of children and young people with a strong interest for public health questions. During her career she has always had a clinical focus on young people with eating disorders.
Plessen completed her postgraduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Bergen, in Norway, where she also completed a PhD on the brain development of children with Tourette syndrome, in close collaboration with Columbia University in New York. She was Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen from 2011 to 2017 where she established a group of researchers whose work focused on developmental pathways in children and adolescent with neuropsychiatric disorders and those at risk for mental health problems. In December 2017 she moved to the University of Lausanne to take on the clinical and research lead of the division and to reorganize the services to achieve a coverage of the public health sector for the young people of the region.
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