Elaine Elliott-Moskwa, PhD

The author of Mindset, Carol S. Dweck, PhD, was my mentor in graduate school and supervised my postdoctoral work at the Harvard School of Education, Laboratory of Human Development. My dissertation was published in a leading academic journal and has been cited over five thousand times. Later, I published papers and chapters with Dweck concerning applications of mindsets.

My mentor also was Aaron T. Beck, MD, considered the father of cognitive therapy, with whom I trained at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. I also served as a consultant to David D. Burns, MD, author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, during his tenure at Penn’s Presbyterian Hospital. Furthermore, I helped to establish the cognitive therapy training program at the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.

I am past president of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, the premier certifying organization for cognitive therapy. In my private practice in Princeton, I employ the cognitive behavioral self-help strategies offered in this book.

In the Growth Mindset Workbook,  I have aspired to bridge the academic and the clinical world and translate Dweck’s book and body of research into a self-help workbook rooted in evidence-based techniques. I bring twenty-plus years of helping people shift from a fixed to a growth mindset in cherished realms in which they are not living up to their potential. I have seen its power to transform lives. It has transformed and continues to transform my own.

See author’s page on Psychology Today:  Thriving with the Challenges