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The team of NASP members responsible for drafting the 2020 revision of the Principles for Professional Ethics shared a commitment to ensuring that the code, like its precursors, would address the unique circumstances associated with providing school-based psychological services and would emphasize protecting the rights and interests of school children and youth (NASP, 2020, p. 39). More specifically, the 2020 code, like its precursor, is based on the following special challenges of school-based practice6 :
School psychologists must “balance the authority of parents to make decisions about their children with the needs and rights of those children, and the purposes and authority of schools.” Within this framework, school psychologists consider “the interests and rights of children and youth to be their highest priority in decision making, and act as advocates for children” (NASP, 2020, p. 39, Standard III.2.3; also Russo, 2018).
The mission of schools is to educate children, maintain order, and ensure pupil safety (Burnside v. Byars, 1966, p. 748). As school employees, “school psychologists have a legal as well as an ethical obligation to take steps to protect all students from reasonably foreseeable risk of harm” (NASP, 2020, p. 39; also Russo, 2018).