Student Ethics Essay Award Recipients
The Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) program is conducted as part of ASHA's efforts to create awareness of the importance of ethical decision making as individuals prepare to start careers in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech, language, and hearing sciences. Recipients of the SEEA are listed below, and essay titles are available to read for the last three years.
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
2012 SEEA Recipients
Topic: Persons in our professions are as likely as anyone else to suffer from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity or to suffer from various forms of addiction and substance abuse. The term "impaired practitioner" is widely used to refer to professionals when such illnesses and addictions adversely affect their ability to carry out their responsibilities. Write an essay in which you consider the ethical issues raised by the problem of impaired professionals.
1st Place
Kendra Schmitt
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Essay Title: Impaired Practitioners: A Collective Call for Action
Chapter Advisor: Jean K. Gordon
2nd Place
Alison Brady
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Essay Title: Compassion and the Impaired Practitioner: Considerations for Prevention, Judgment, and Action in Ethics Violation Cases
Chapter Advisor: Sarah Angerman, PhD, CCC-A
3rd Place
Emily Norman
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Essay Title: The Role of the Individual and National Association in the Prevention of Compromised Patient Care Due to Impaired Practitioners
Chapter Advisor: Jean K. Gordon
2011 SEEA Recipients
Topic: Describe an ethical dilemma that might arise for a student or a supervisor in a clinical setting, addressing various aspects of the dilemma such as the pressures that might push the involved professionals toward unethical behavior; how a student would know whether client well-being is being put at risk and whether clinical supervision is adequate; how students should address a situation in which they have doubts about the ethical acceptability of their supervisor's conduct; and how an ethically acceptable outcome might be achieved.
1st Place
Monique King
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Essay Title: A Domino Effect of Unethical Decisions
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Tracy Cafferty
2nd Place
Ambily Abraham
Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Essay Title: Clinical Clash of Cultures
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Natalie Glass
3rd Place
Emily Riddle
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Essay Title: Providing Effective Treatment in the Face of Power Differential: A Clinical Situation
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Kimberly C. Crawford
2010 SEEA Recipients
Topic: Within the context of the ASHA Code of Ethics, how has the emergence of technology impacted the issues of confidentiality, privacy, and security of individuals' records and protected health information?
1st Place
Keith Hosokawa
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Essay Title: The False Security of Technology and Its Impact on Protecting Client Confidentiality
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Tracy Cafferty
2nd Place
Amelia S. Rachal
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana
Essay Title: Safety in Numbers: Technology's Impact on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Merrie Pendergrass
3rd Place
Suzannah Marie Allen
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Essay Title: Implications for Confidentiality In an Increasingly Technological World
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Kimberly C. Crawford
2009 SEEA Recipients
Topic: The meaning and importance of Principle IV of ASHA's Code of Ethics (2003).
1st Place
Megan Thurber
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Essay Title: The Importance of Collaboration and Character: Principle of Ethics IV
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Emily E. Tyson
2nd Place
Jennifer Wallace Knapp
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Essay Title: Principle IV
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Kimberly Crawford
3rd Place
Victoria Hatzelis
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
Essay Title: Overcoming Professional Challenges in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Lifelong Commitment
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Elise M. Wagner
2008 SEEA Recipients
Topic: The meaning and importance of Principle III of ASHA's Code of Ethics (2003).
1st Place
Heather S. Petrusa
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Essay Title: A Framework for Care That Encompasses Our Professional Characteristics
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Lisa Domby
2nd Place
Kimberly S. Judlin
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana
Essay Title: Principles of Ethics III
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Merrie Pendergrass
3rd Place
Melinda J. Simon
Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia
Essay Title: Professional Integrity of Student Clinicians
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Peggy C. Agee
2007 SEEA Recipients
Topic: The meaning and importance of Principle II of ASHA's Code of Ethics (2003).
1st Place
Carolyn Stephenson Gosse
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Essay Title: Developing Professional Competence During the Clinical Fellowship
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Jessica J. Norton
2nd Place
Sarenne Sutton
Teachers College-Columbia University, New York, New York
Essay Title: Principle of Ethics II
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Elise M. Wagner
3rd Place
Elissa M. Larkin
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Essay Title: The Ethic of Competence
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Catherine Bacon
2006 SEEA Recipients
Topic: The meaning and importance of Principle I of ASHA's Code of Ethics (2003).
1st Place
Victoria Carlson-Casaregola
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
Essay Title: Doing Well by Others: Thoughts on Idealism and the ASHA Code of Ethics in Practice
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Carol L. Ackerson
2nd Place
Laura Guengerich
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Essay Title: ASHA's Principle of Ethics I in Action
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Tracy Cafferty
3rd Place
Sarah Reid
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Essay Title: Ethics: Holding the Person Paramount
NSSLHA Chapter Advisor: Perry Flynn