Counselors have the ethical obligation to maintain confidentiality and establish practices to sustain student fidelity. Our legal and ethical responsibilities within the EHMS School Counseling Programs shall be in accordance with the practices we execute in school settings. Any communication(s) between a student and counselor shall stay under fidelity unless any of the following has been expressed:
Student is/was being harmed
Student is harming himself/herself
Student intends to harm someone else
The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) is a professional organization supporting school counselors, school counseling students/interns, school counseling program directors/supervisors and school counselor educators. School counselors have unique qualifications and skills to address preK–12 students’ academic, career and social/emotional development needs. These standards are the ethical responsibility of all school counseling professionals.