Black Swan: Perfectionism and Anxiety Disorders in Clinical Practice

What you'll learn

• Define perfectionism as a multidimensional construct and differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism using established theoretical models including Hewitt and Flett's and Frost's frameworks.
• Identify the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of perfectionism and describe its role as a transdiagnostic factor across anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum conditions.
• Apply evidence-based assessment strategies for identifying perfectionism in clinical presentations, including standardized measures and clinical interview approaches.
• Implement cognitive behavioral interventions for perfectionism, including cognitive restructuring of perfectionist beliefs, behavioral experiments, exposure-based approaches, and self-compassion techniques.
• Analyze clinical decision-making when perfectionism co-occurs with other psychopathology, including treatment sequencing, integration considerations, and therapeutic relationship challenges.

Who it's for

LPCs, LMHCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, Psychologists

Approval & credit

CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 1 NBCC-approved CE hour; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.