Dr. Shirley Harvey Spence PHD
Psychologist | Clinical
435 S Main St Madisonville KY, 42431About
Dr. Shirley Spence is a psychologist practicing in Madisonville, KY. Dr. Spence specializes in the treatment of mental health problems, and helps people to cope with their mental illnesses. As a psychologist, Dr. Spence evaluates and treats patients through a variety of methods, most typically being psychotherapy or talk therapy. Patients usually visit Dr. Spence because they have been experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or anger for a significant period of time and are seeking help. Psychologists may perform a variety of exams and assessments to diagnose a mental condition.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early intervention and prevention of anxiety disorders in children: results at 2-year follow-up.
- The relative efficacy and treatment distress of EMDR and a cognitive-behavior trauma treatment protocol in the amelioration of posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Anxious children and their parents: what do they expect?
- Social skills, social outcomes, and cognitive features of childhood social phobia.
- Prevention of childhood anxiety disorders.
- The treatment of childhood social phobia: the effectiveness of a social skills training-based, cognitive-behavioural intervention, with and without parental involvement.
- An investigation of symptom-specific muscle hyperreactivity in upper extremity cumulative trauma disorder.
- The structure of anxiety symptoms among preschoolers.
- Adjustment to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the importance of psychological factors.
- Site-specific muscle hyper-reactivity in musicians with occupational upper limb pain.
- What is the revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children measuring?
- Cognitive-behaviour therapy in the treatment of chronic, occupational pain of the upper limbs: a 2 yr follow-up.
- Performance realism in test-anxious students.
- Effectiveness of booster sessions in the maintenance and enhancement of treatment gains following assertion training.
- An examination of the relationship between childhood depression and social competence amongst primary school children.
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