School Counseling Principles: Ethics and Law, fifth edition

Details about School Counseling Principles: Ethics and Law, fifth edition:

The fifth edition of “School Counseling Principles: Ethics and Law” is a casebook based on actual situations school counselors have encountered. The landscape of legal and ethical behavior changes frequently as courts, government, school boards and public opinion weigh in. The more than 180 case studies will generate a lively discussion among practitioners and school counseling candidates alike. Cases are designed to assess principles of law as established by courts, federal and state statutes, and school board policies. Legal and ethical analysis is needed to address each case, and all cases are based on reality.

This edition addresses recent court rulings affecting the profession, including cases involving school counselors and child abuse, good-faith reporting, judicial bypass for abortions, transgender youth, social media, negligence in suicide, dating violence, peer-to-peer sexual harassment, undocumented students and more.

The fifth edition includes the application of 22 new or revised ASCA position statements, which were revised since the previous edition:

• annual performance appraisal

• character education

• child abuse and neglect prevention

• college access professionals

• confidentiality

• credentialing and licensure

• discipline

• group counseling

• LGBTQ+ youth

• multitiered system of supports

• prevention of school-related gun violence

• prevention of sexually transmitted infections

• promotion of safe schools through conflict resolution and bullying/harassment prevention

• safe schools and crisis response

• school-family-community partnerships

• student mental health

• student safety

• students with disabilities

• suicide risk assessment

• transgender and nonbinary youth

• trauma-informed practice

• working with students experiencing issues surrounding undocumented status

Surveys of school counseling professionals were updated to include critical issues affecting the profession, such as: cyberspace, professionalism, virtual school counseling, student violence, FERPA, child abuse, negligence and obligations to the courts, individual and group counseling, sexually active students, bullying and cyberbullying and LGBTQ+ issues.