Teaching Note—Beyond #Freebritney

Britney Spears’s 2020 testimony about her 13-year conservatorship highlighted ethical concerns surrounding surrogate decision making. Social workers engage with families and clients in conservatorship/guardianship arrangements. However, social work educational programs spend little time preparing students for surrogate decision making and advocacy. Guided by the pedagogical technique of scaffolding and the Spears family case, this teaching note presents a foundational understanding of surrogate decision-making arrangements: conservatorship of the estate, conservatorship of a person, temporary conservatorship, permanent conservatorship, medical justification for conservatorship, controlling fertility, legal counsel, labor in conservatorship cases, and alternatives for guardianship. Content in this area will benefit social work students who intend to work with older adults, adults with mental health conditions, and adults with disabilities

Estate · Legal guardian · Medical education · Political science · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Medicine · Music Therapy and Health · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Psychology · Social Work

• Some Perspectives on Deinstitutionalization

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• The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving

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• Popular Culture as Pedagogy

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• Searching for workable alternatives to guardianship for vulnerable populations

  Open Access•Terry Carney•Ethics Medicine and Public Health•2015

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• AMA Code of Medical Ethics' Opinions on Patient Decision-Making Capacity and Competence and Surrogate Decision Making

  Open Access•Danielle Hahn Chaet•The AMA Journal of Ethic•2017

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• Popular culture as pedagogy in the political theory classroom

  Open Access•Natalie Jester•European Political Science•2020

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• Durable powers of attorney as a substitute for conservatorship

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• Duty of Care, Safety, Normalisation and the Mental Capacity Act

  Open Access•Treena Jingree•Journal of Community & Applied…•2014

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• Dementia and Guardianship

  Margaret Mills, Margaret H Mills•Australian Social Work•2016

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• Necessity is Neither Condemned nor Praised’

  Open Access•Roni Holler, Shirli Werner•The British Journal of Social Work•2022

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• Identity as Discourse

  Open Access•Michal Barel, Israel Doron et al.•The British Journal of Social Work•2021

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• Stigma Despite Recovery

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