TOPIC: Ethical/Legal/Consumer Issues in School Health/Mental Health

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Articles
• Confidentiality: Competing Principles, Inevitable Dilemmas
• Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment
• Ethical Issues in Addressing Mental Health Concerns in Schools.

Continuing Education Modules
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools, Unit II, Section C: Consent, Due Process, & Confidentiality

Introductory Packets
• Confidentiality and Informed Consent

Newsletter
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative

Quick Training Aid
• Confidentiality

Practice Notes
• Addressing Stigma as Part of Student Supports
• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools
• Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
• Helping and Socialization
• Involving Parents in Counseling
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Policy Notes
• Brief Report on Responses to an Inquiry about Which Schools are Taking Equity Seriously?
• Integrated Student Supports and Equity: What’s Not Being Discussed?
• Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
• Making MOUs Meaningful

Information Resource
• Schools and the Challenge of LD and ADHD Misdiagnoses
• Just a Label? Some Pros and Cons of Formal Diagnoses of Children
• Arguments About Whether Overdiagnosis of ADHD is a Significant Problem

Ethical and Legal Issues
• Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Establishing ethical practice in school mental health
• Ethical challenges in mental health services to children and families
• Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
• Legal issues in adolescent care
• Parents' Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: Rights Regarding Your Children's Education Records
• NASW Standards for School Social Work Services
• What are the Odds? Random Drug Testing of Students: A Legal Perspective.

• ABA Center on Children and the Law
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Federal Citizen Information Center
• School-Based Health Alliance
• National Center for Youth Law

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