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The previous edition of Ethics and Law for School Psychologists included new material on ethical-legal considerations associated with the use of digital technologies by school districts, school psychologists, and school children. Since that time, the Covid-19 pandemic along with the nationwide shortage of school psychologists have led to increased interest in distance assessment and intervention. As a result, multiple sections of the book were further updated to address ethical and legal concerns associated with distance delivery of school psychological services, including sections on distance assessment (ssss1), teleconsultation (ssss1), and telesupervision (ssss1).

Throughout the eighth edition, we incorporated citations to recent publications and legal decisions. However, we also continued to cite older works that provided the foundation for more recent scholarship in the area of ethics and law for school psychologists. As Koocher and Keith-Spiegel (2008) observed, ignoring important older publications on a topic is disrespectful of the efforts of early scholars. Furthermore, researchers and writers “who pass over earlier work may conclude that they discovered something fresh and innovative when in fact the same findings were published many years ago” (p. 524).