1. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities in School Counseling
CHAPTER 4

2. GOAL
To establish the importance of legal codes and ethical standards in school counseling.

3. THE IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN BALANCED SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS
Legal concepts
Governmental regulations
Ethical standards

4. PERTINENT LEGAL CODES AND CONCEPTS
Federal Legislation
Title IX 
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
Legal Concepts
Privileged communication
Malpractice and negligence
Child abuse
Libel, slander, and defamation
Unclear areas

5. ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITES
American Counseling Association Code of Ethics
Preamble 
The counseling relationship
Confidentiality and privacy
Professional responsibility
Relationships with other professionals
Evaluation, assessment, and interpretation
Supervision, training, and teaching
Research and publication
Distance counseling, technology, and social media
Resolving ethical issues

6. CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN OR CREATED BY THE 2014 ACA CODE OF ETHICS
Values versus competence
Challenges related to technology ethics
Required use of problem-solving model when making ethical decisions

7. AMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION ETHICAL STANDARDS
Avoiding Ethical Violations
Initiation
Counseling
Crises
Termination
Ethical Multicultural Counseling
Making Good Ethical Decisions

8. KEEPING GOOD STUDENT RECORDS
FERPA and codes of ethics
Developing a systematic plan for collection, maintenance, and dissemination of school records
Implementing a record-keeping system

9. SOURCES OF ETHICS CONSULTATION
American Counseling Association
American School Counselor Association

10. REFLECTING ABOUT LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
Reflect on your positions on the following recommendations:
School counselors should not refer student clients for reasons related to their personal values.
School counselors should not follow students on Facebook and other social media outlets.
School counselors should use and document ethical decision-making models.
The best ethical decision-making models contain multicultural overlays.

11. APPLICATION TO TECHNOLOGY
Create an inventory of forms of social media that school-aged students currently use that might challenge school counselors from legal and ethical perspectives, and develop a list of ways that the challenges might be manifested.
Develop a plan for using technology to keep student records in a manner that meets FERPA guidelines and those in the ACA and ASCA codes of ethics.