Keeping them happy: Job satisfaction, personality, and attitudes toward disability in predicting counselor job retention

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-80

  Lawrence, Emily R ^a,b   Glidden, Laraine M ^a   Jobe, Brian M ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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