The Growth Mindset Workbook: CBT Skills to Help You Build Resilience, Increase Confidence, and Thrive through Life's Challenges

Review
“Growth sounds so enticing until you get stalled by attitudes and behaviors that sabotage your progress. The Growth Mindset Workbook teaches you to observe your personal pitfalls and respond to them with strategies that can sustain your progress. If you are serious about improving your work or personal life, this engaging book shows you how to bring a growth mindset into your daily life with practical and life-changing effects.”
—Christine A. Padesky, PhD, coauthor of Mind Over Mood and The Clinician’s Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood
“Parallel lines of rigorous psychological research—cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindset research—have documented how we can improve our well-being, life satisfaction, and happiness. In The Growth Mindset Workbook, Elaine Elliott-Moskwa brilliantly describes how to effectively use the proven strategies of CBT to establish a growth mindset. By following Elliott-Moskwa’s step-by-step program, the reader will learn to identify and overcome barriers to a growth mindset, and master proven CBT strategies to lead a more meaningful and fulfilled life.”
—Dennis Greenberger, PhD, coauthor of Mind Over Mood, and director of the Anxiety and Depression Center in Newport Beach, CA
“The Growth Mindset Workbook is a book that can change your life. How often have you thought, ‘I can’t do that’? Elaine Elliott-Moskwa provides us with powerful, practical tools to identify your biases about change, and tools that help you overcome obstacles. Highly readable, informative, and immediately useful, you will find that these ideas and techniques can help you in almost any area of your life. This is a detailed plan for ‘Yes, I can’ thinking.”
—Robert L. Leahy, PhD, director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, and author of If Only…: Finding Freedom from Regret
“Elaine Elliott-Moskwa has written a superb workbook that can transform your mind and change your life. Her approach is based on a simple and powerful idea: your mindset has an enormous influence on your mental health. As an expert clinician and one of the foremost scholars in this field, Elliott-Moskwa created a masterful workbook. I highly recommend it.”
—Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany, and coauthor of Learning Process-Based Therapy
“What is a self-help book about if it’s not about growth, and growth begins—according to Elaine Elliott-Moskwa—with a growth mindset. In The Growth Mindset Workbook, Elliott-Moskwa, an authority on the topic, presents a host of CBT skills to cultivate and nurture a new growth-oriented mindset. If you’re stuck, stagnant, or paralyzed; if you’re anxious, sad, or suffering; pick up this book, learn these skills, and grow.”
—Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, ABPP, codirector of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and author of The Anxiety and Depression Workbook and Anxiety and Avoidance
“Elaine Elliott-Moskwa has delivered an interesting and exceptional workbook to help the reader move from a fixed to a growth mindset, a go-to tool for everyone. Weaving her personal story along with relatable, professional, and everyday life examples of others, the reader is systematically helped to shift their mindset, remove the barriers to goal achievement, and build resilience and success.”
—Leslie Sokol, PhD, president elect of the International Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IACBT); fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT); distinguished founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (A-CBT); and coauthor of The Comprehensive Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
“Elaine Elliott-Moskwa takes her work on resilience to write a compelling, must-read book on how to transform a fixed mindset into a growth mindset. By showing us that a fixed mindset is a habit, she helps us learn that we can develop a growth mindset. Replete with examples, The Growth Mindset W