ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING IN SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH

Knowing yourself and your responsibilities requires understanding your ethical assumptions and frameworks. This chapter identifies four major ethical theories that inform professional codes of ethics including deontology consequentialism ethics of care and virtue ethics. It also provides a typology for the mental health professionals use of self that includes 1 negative underinvolvement 2 positive underinvolvement 3 positive overinvolvement and 4 negative overinvolvement. It ties each of these positions to the use of a hierarchy of professional influence ranging from persuasion leverage inducement and threat to compulsion