Dr. Carol S. Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly bookSelf-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Developmentwas named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship. Her work has been featured in such publications asThe New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, andThe Boston Globe, and she has appeared onTodayand 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.
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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--Leslie Sokol,
PhD
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"What is a self-help book about if it's not about growth, and
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Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, and author of The Anxiety
and Depression Workbook and Anxiety and Avoidance--Michael A.
Tompkins, PhD, ABPP
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