Signature Assignment Ethics in School Counseling
Candidates need to
choose topics that relate to school counseling and have historically posed an ethical or legal dilemma in
the field. Candidates should think about legal cases and education laws as resources for their position.
The paper should include:
A history or definition of the problem.
What makes it an ethical or legal problem for the school or school counselor?
What cases have been tried in court that address this issue?
How have those cases changed how a school would respond to the situation?
What future implications could arise?
Are there any other factors that will need to be considered (technology, personal beliefs, etc.)?
Candidates need to provide at least 3 valid references in the paper (Candidates should use their
references from their Annotated Bibliography assignment due in week 5).