A SURVEY OF ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING AMONG PRACTICING SCHOOL-PSYCHOLOGISTS

This study investigated a sample of practicing school psychologists' p referred resolutions to a series of ethical dilemmas and their primary reason(s) for arriving at these resolutions. Results indicated a gene ral lack of consistency in both actions taken to resolve ethical dilem mas and reasons chosen to support such actions, regardless of responde nts' sex, years of experience, self-reported hours of ethics training, frequency of encountering similar problems, perceived seriousness of the problem, or confidence in decision making. The results are discuss ed in light of similar findings from other areas of professional psych ology and their implications for better preservice training in ethical decision making.