This investigation examined the receipt of professional counseling services in response to problems related to stress in one state-wide sample of special education teachers. An analysis of variance was conducted for each stress variable to estimate the significance of mean differences between groups of counseling recipients and nonrecipients. Most comparisons indicated significantly stronger and more frequent stressful experiences for counseling recipients than for nonrecipients with respect to scores on Professional Distress, Emotional Manifestations, Physiological-Fatigue Manifestations, and Total Stress.
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