The members of the ethics committee will create two mock ethical scenarios, one for the master's students and one for doctoral students, addressing a current ethical issue facing the profession of counseling.

1. Each Counselor Education Program will be allowed to have one team of Master's level (e.g. may not have two teams of students from different specialty areas) and one team of Doctoral level students enter to compete. Only one team of master's students and one team of doctoral students may apply from each counselor education program.
2. Each team must have a faculty member who will serve as an administrative contact person for the institution. The faculty must be an ACA Member.
3. The role of the faculty contact person is one of a representative of the team's counseling/education program only and should not act as a consultant in this competition.
4. Masters and doctoral student teams will be judged in two separate categories. Teams must not be mixed level.
5. Teams may have either 3 or 4 students - no more or fewer.
6. Each team member must be currently enrolled (in good standing) in a Master's or Doctoral level program in Counselor Education and will be enrolled for the Fall 2009 term for a minimum of three credits.
7. Each team member must be a member of the American Counseling Association (team members may submit membership applications online when they submit their competition registration form).
8. Teams should utilize the 2005 Code of Ethics of the American Counseling Association and information from relevant counseling literature for their case study response.
9. Utilization of outside sources, URLs, articles, etc. are encouraged for the case study, but the graduate student team members may not consult with anyone outside of their 3-4 member case study team, including their faculty contact or other members of their faculty.
10. By submitting a case study response, teams agree to allow their names to be posted online, to appear in Counseling Today, and for their responses to be posted online.