My research interests center around two important areas with practical implications for the field of school psychology: suicide risk assessment and professional ethics. Specifically, I have investigated the child and adolescent suicide risk assessment training practices of school psychology graduate programs, as well as the nature of fieldwork experiences in suicide assessment and intervention provided at internship placement sites. I have also recently developed an assessment instrument, entitled the Student Suicide Risk Assessment Protocol (SSRAP), to assist school professionals with the task of determining an adolescent’s level of suicide risk. My research on professional ethics has centered around factors that contribute to ethical decision-making by school psychologists, with an emphasis on the effects of decision-making models. I have recently conducted an investigation into the ethical orientations adopted by various school personnel in an attempt to explain administrative pressure on school psychologists to behave unethically in their role as student advocate.
