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Teaching Note - Beyond #Freebritney: Teaching Social Workers about Surrogate Decision Making through the Spears Case
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Lesley M. Harris; Sara M. Williams; Eva X. Nyerges; Rebecka Bloomer – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Contracts, Court Litigation