The Urban School Counseling Collaborative Presents:

2023 Speaker Series

School Counselors: Negotiating the Legal and Ethical Complications of Working with Minors in Schools

The school environment poses competing interests between a student’s need for confidentiality and the legal rights of parents as established by the U.S. Supreme Court to be the guiding voice in their children's lives. Participants will analyze legal and ethical issues through the application of court cases, ethical codes, law, and community standards. Through discussion of case studies, participants will be given the opportunity to consider their actions in context of each situation. Topics of discussion will include areas such as confidentiality and duty to warn, responsibilities toward children and suicidal ideation, civil and criminal liability, sexually active minor clients, defamation, child abuse, case notes and educational records, malpractice in academic advising, sexual harassment, LGBT students, and personal conduct.

When: August 14, 2023 from 10am-12pm

Where: Zoom

Pricing: $10 for UNCC students (Please use student email when registering); $40 to attend; $50 to attend and receive CEU certificate (2 credit hours)

Please note: No refunds will be issued

Speaker Bio

Carolyn Stone is a Professor of Counselor Educator who researches in the areas of school counselor development; legal and ethical issues. Dr. Stone was the 2006 President of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and in July 2022 stepped down after 20 years as ASCA’s Ethics Chair where she chaired the last four revisions of the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors. Dr. Stone was awarded ASCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and the Florida School Counselor Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Dr. Stone has written 100 legal and ethical columns for ASCA’s SchoolCounselor and the only legal and ethical book exclusively for school counselors now in the fifth edition. Dr. Stone has provided keynote addresses and/or preconferences for all 50 state school counseling associations; presented 840 presentations (approximately 700 on legal and ethical issues for school counselors) to international/national/state school counseling conferences and school districts. She has completed dozens of webinars for ASCA and guest lectures in counseling classes around the nation on legal and ethical issues. Dr. Stone hosted Michelle Obama’s third Reach Higher White House Convening in November 2015. Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995, Dr. Stone spent 22 years with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida where she served 239 school counselors as their district-level supervisor and prior to that role was an elementary and high school counselor and middle school teacher.

Questions?

For program questions, please contact Sheree Harper at sharpe15@uncc.edu.

For registration questions, please contact Lucy Arnold at lperkins@uncc.edu.

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