Ethics and Law for School Psychologists
Chapter One
ETHICS IN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY :
AN INTRODUCTION
In the late 1970s, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) conducted a study of the ethical concerns of its affiliated societies
(Chalk, Frankel, & Chafer, 1980). Haas, Malouf, and Mayerson
(1986, p. 316) summarized the AAAS findings as follows:
Recent years have been marked by a rise in professional consciousness about
ethical and legal responsibilities and by a concurrent rise in public consciousness
about legal rights. The result, in part, is a level of concern (and
confusion) about proper professional behavior that is unprecedented in all
professions and is particularly evident in psychology.
Because the decisions made by school psychologists have an impact on
human lives, and thereby on society , the practice of school psychology rests
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