2025 Registration for Ethics Session Only

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

* Registration open until 11/5/25 at 12:00 PM (EST)

Event Details

If you are attending the FULL Conference and have already registered, do not use this registration to add on the Ethics Pre-Conference session. Please contact the office (info@gaschoolcounselor.org) for assistance to add Ethics.

If you intend to register for the full conference AND Ethics, please register here.

GSCA is pleased to offer the option to attend the Ethics course, which will take place prior to the start of Conference, Wednesday November 12th, 8 am - 2 pm. Lunch is included.

This course is pending approval by LPCAGA for 5 hours of credit.

Registration prices listed below are for the five-hour ethics course on Wednesday, November 12th only, and does not include entry to any other Conference meetings, events or sessions.

Ethics-Only Rates
Members - Full Day Session (includes lunch): Registration must be completed by noon on 11/1	$200
Non-member/Guest - Full Day Session (includes lunch): Non-member/Guest - registration must be completed by noon on 11/1	$225

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For More Information:

2900 Delk Road Suite 700, PMB 321
Marietta, Georgia 30067
United States (770) 971-6002

School Counselors Legal Literacy and Ethical Practice (Ethics) - Full Day, Includes Lunch
8:00 - 2:00 pm, live 8-12, supplemental video for additional hour

This course is being reviewed by the LPCA for CE credit of 5 hours

Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Stone

Session description: School counselors must negotiate the competing interests of the overregulated school environment, student’s need for confidentiality and the legal rights of parents to be the guiding voice in their children's lives. Updates on these competing interests will be discussed through court rulings and the new 2022 ASCA Ethical Standards. Legal rulings and ethical practice will be highlighted in areas such as bullying, academic advising, parental rights, privacy issues, child abuse, educational records, sexual harassment, first amendment rights, and gender identity. Particular attention will be given to recent changes in federal, case, and state laws to facilitate participants’ legal literacy and provide guiding principles to support best ethical practice.

Carolyn Stone is a Professor of Counselor Educator who researches in the areas of school counselor development; legal and ethical issues. Dr. Stone was the 2006 President of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and in July 2022 stepped down after 20 years as ASCA’s Ethics Chair where she chaired the last four revisions of the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors. Dr. Stone was awarded ASCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and the Florida School Counselor Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Dr. Stone has written 100 legal and ethical columns for ASCA’s School Counselor and the only legal and ethical book exclusively for school counselors now in the fifth edition. Dr. Stone has provided keynote addresses and/or pre-conferences for all 50 state school counseling associations; presented 840 presentations (approximately 700 on legal and ethical issues for school counselors) to international/national/state school counseling conferences and school districts. She has completed dozens of webinars for ASCA and guest lectures in counseling classes around the nation on legal and ethical issues. Dr. Stone hosted Michelle Obama’s third Reach Higher White House Convening in November 2015. Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995, Dr. Stone spent 22 years with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida where she served 239 school counselors as their district level supervisor and prior to that role was an elementary and high school counselor and middle school teacher.