Professional Standards Committee

The current members of this committee and the year of the expiration of their terms are:

• Paula Freer (chair) -- until 2008
• Emily Collins, Jack Talley,
  Elaine Hamilton, Dale Carter (members)

 

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The PSC is a standing committee of GASP

ARTICLE VI, A, 4.

The Professional Standards Committee shall make recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding professional and ethical practices. The committee shall receive and investigate all complaints regarding violations of professional and ethical practices and make recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding action to be taken. This committee shall also make recommendations regarding actions which the Association might take to protect the professional rights of its members.

ARTICLE VI, C

Members of the Professional Standards Committee shall be elected by the voting membership upon nomination from the floor at the business meeting held during the Annual Spring Conference. There shall be six (6) members on the committee. The term of office shall be three (3) years with tow (2) members completing their terms of office each year and two (2) new members being elected. Unexpired terms of office shall be filled by presidential appointment, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors, until the next Annual Spring Conference when the membership shall elect a member to complete the unexpired term. This committee shall elect a Chairperson each year at its first meeting following the Annual Spring Conference.

 

The Professional Standards Committee's ....

Excerpted from the GASP Operations and Procedures Manual (April 1997) (Section VI, A, 5). 

Purpose

The Professional Standards Committee shall make recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding professional and ethical practices. This committee shall receive and investigate all complaints regarding violations of professional and ethical practices and make recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding action to be taken. This committee shall also make recommendations regarding actions which the Association might take to protect the professional rights of its members.

Specific Responsibilities

(1) Elect a Chairperson each year in its first meeting following the Annual Spring Conference.

(2) Identify and investigate issues related to the public and private practice of school psychology in the following areas:

(a) ethics, standards, and professional conduct

(b) training, certification, and licensure

(c) legal concerns and activities

(3) Investigate and attempt to resolve situations in which members of the public or school psychologists question the ethics and conduct of members of GASP.

(4) Investigate allegations of unethical conduct by a member according to procedures established by the By-Laws. (Procedures omitted here)

(5) Educate school psychologists and the general public about principals of ethical and professional conduct for school psychologists.

(6) Provide information to school psychologists who have questions regarding their own professional ethics and conduct.

(7) Interpret Codes of Ethics and report specific interpretations to the membership.

(8) Make recommendations regarding actions that GASP might take to protect the professional rights of its members.