ALSCA 2019 Regional Workshops Feature Carolyn Stone
By ALSCA | January 2019
Legal Literacy and Ethical Practice in the Complex World of School Counseling
With Carolyn Stone, Ed.D., ASCA Ethics Chair
February 26, 2019University of South Alabama
350 Campus Drive, Mobile, AL 36688
February 27, 2019
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1400 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294
February 28, 2019
Calhoun Community College
6250 Highway 31 N, Tanner, AL 35671 – Decatur
The registration postmark date was February 4, 2019; however, on-site registration with payment will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. On-site registration for ALSCA members is $75 and non-members is $125.
Limited copies of Stone’s book, “School Counseling Principles: Ethics and Law” (fourth edition), will be available for $42, with payment by cash, checks, or Venmo.
School counselors must negotiate the competing interests of the overregulated school environment, students’ need for confidentiality and the legal rights of parents to be the guiding voice in their children’s lives. Stone will discuss updates on these competing interests through 10 primary court rulings and the 2016 ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors. She will highlight legal rulings and ethical practice in areas such as sexually active students, bullying, academic advising, child abuse, educational records, sexual harassment, first amendment rights, and transgender youth. The presentation will focus on developing laws regarding off-campus cyber speech and other uses of social media that are difficult to address without offending the first amendment.
Through case study and the application of federal, state, and judge-made laws, participants will actively dialogue in a lively forum. The goal is to facilitate participants’ legal literacy and provide guiding principles to support best ethical practice. School counselors, school and system administrators, counselor educators and other student success stakeholders are encouraged to attend. This workshop has been approved for 6 NBCC hours (6 hours of professional development).
The workshops will be in three parts:
Part 1
- The Complications of Confidentiality
- Minors’ Privacy Rights
- Group Work
- What School Counselors Can Write and Say Legally
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Case Notes, Educational Records
- Standard of Care
- Privilege Communication and Confidentiality
- Negligence in Referring
- Court Cases in Child Abuse Reporting
- LGBT Students
- Negligence in Suicide Reporting
- First and Fourth Amendment Rights
- Negligence in Academic Advising
- Sexually Active Students
- Sexual Harassment
- Cyberbullying
- Bullying and the Courts
- Boundary Issues
- Title IX and Dating Violence
- Title IX and Pregnant Students