Perfectionism is a pervasive feature that can impact on a child’s development and wellbeing. In today’s modern world, many children and adolescents can find themselves juggling multiple demands and responsibilities, including schoolwork, friendships, sports and...
Perfectionism is not necessarily about being ‘perfect’. Few people would profess to being perfect. Yet many of us to do strive to achieve perfection. Perfectionism involves three things: Firstly, the relentless striving for extremely high standards for yourself...
For those struggling with perfectionism, self-defeating thoughts and behaviours around reaching excessive and unrealistic expectation and standards can have significant impacts on various areas in life such as work, school and home. To understand perfectionism, it can...
Perfectionism is not just about ‘being perfect’ or ‘doing things perfectly’. It’s more about striving for extremely high standards or even holding others to such high standards. Surely the idea of working really hard to achieve a high standard in our workplace,...