The effect of self-compassion therapy on maladaptive perfectionism and self-criticism: A review study

Perfectionism is defined as a personality trait that is characterized by striving to be flawless and setting very high standards of performance along with overestimating the characteristic of one's behavior. Perfectionism can be maladaptive, in which maladaptive perfectionists have negative characteristics. The population in which maladaptive perfectionists are found is students. Self-criticism is a diagnostic process related to psychological problems that self-compassion intervention creates programs to explicitly target self-criticism. In general, we found that psychological acceptance and / or compassion affect moderate to high perfectionism in quality of life and symptom disorders. By acting on self-confidence, self-criticism, and the regulation of positive and negative emotions in a non-clinical setting, compassion focused therapy (CFT) is specifically designed to help individuals resolve their critical and embarrassing problems and is designed to motivate compassion. . Self-compassion requires that one be open and affected by one's suffering, that one feel caring and kind toward oneself, and that one perceive and judge one's failures. That their experience of the universal human experience of their compassion can help eliminate the negative impact of perfectionism.

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perfectionism , self-criticism , compassion focused therapy , universal human experience