Dr. Carolyn Stone - School Counselors: Negotiating the Legal and Ethical Complications of Working with Minors in Schools

Carolyn Stone is a Professor of Counselor Educator at the University of North Florida where she teaches and researches in the area of legal and ethical issues for school counselors.  Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995, Carolyn spent 22 years with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida where she served as a middle school teacher, elementary and high school counselor and Supervisor of Guidance.  Carolyn was the 2006 President of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA).  Carolyn has chaired the last three revisions of the American School Counselor’s Ethical Standards and is in her fifteenth year as ASCA’s Ethics Chair.  She was awarded the Mary Gerke Lifetime Achievement Award by ASCA in 2010 and in 2012 was awarded the Bob Myrick Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida School Counselor Association.  Carolyn has delivered over 700 workshops in all 50 states and 24 countries.  She has authored six books, dozens of journal articles and serves the courts as an expert witness in cases involving school counselors.  

Website: www.unf.edu/bio/N00009053