Ethics and law for school psychologists., 8th ed

ABSTRACT

Ethics and Law for School Psychologists was written to provide up-to-date information on ethical principles and standards and law pertinent to the delivery of school psychological services. The goal of this book is to bring together various ethical and legal guidelines pertinent to the delivery of school psychological services. The book focuses on ethical-legal issues of interest to current and future school-based practitioners. There have been a number of changes in ethical guidelines and law since the seventh edition. The National Association of School Psychologists revised its professional standards, including the Principles for Professional Ethics, in 2020, and the American Psychological Association revised its ethics code, Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, in 2016. The eighth edition gives new attention to the ethical obligation to promote social justice. The problem-solving model is replaced by the DECIDE ethical-legal decision-making model developed by Diamond et al. (2021) that emphasizes socially just practice. Overall, the book has been updated to stress consideration of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other background factors important to understanding the context and/or the individuals involved in ethically challenging situations, and practitioners are now more explicitly urged to examine their own biases and how those biases might affect their perception of a situation and professional judgment. Chapter 8 now includes information about working with students who have undocumented family members and the educational rights of homeless schoolchildren. Chapter 12 (new) provides an expanded focus on advocacy. The Covid-19 pandemic along with the nationwide shortage of school psychologists have led to increased interest in distance assessment and intervention. As a result, multiple sections of the book are further updated to address ethical and legal concerns associated with distance delivery of school psychological services, including sections on distance assessment (Chapter 6), teleconsultation (Chapter 8), and telesupervision (Chapter 11). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)