Guardianship Isn't Your Emotional Support Court Order

A Guide to Ethically Not Disappearing a Person

von Nicole Godfrey

222 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Guardianship is necessary, demanding, and sometimes lifesaving work. It is also not a magical court order that makes every difficult person cooperative, every family reasonable, or every impossible system suddenly functional.Guardianship Isn't Your Emotional Support Court Order is a candid-and appropriately salty-guide to practicing guardianship ethically when the caseload is heavy, the resources are thin, and everyone expects the guardian to fix problems they did not create.Drawing on more than a decade of public guardianship experience, Nicole Godfrey does not argue against guardianship. She argues for doing it well. Guardianship can provide essential protection, stability, advocacy, and decision-making support when less restrictive alternatives are not sufficient. But necessary authority still requires professional judgment, clear boundaries, defensible documentation, and respect for the person at the center of the case.Grounded in the National Guardianship Association Standards of Practice, the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act, and the realities of day-to-day practice, this book explores: - Person-centered and supported decision-making- The ethical exercise-and limits-of guardian authority- Autonomy, risk, dignity, and the right to make imperfect choices- Family conflict, unrealistic expectations, and difficult conversations- Documentation that shows the work instead of merely checking the box- Caseload pressure, staffing failures, and organizational accountability- Professional boundaries for guardians who are expected to be everything to everyone- Practical strategies for delivering protective, ethical, and defensible servicesWritten for public, family and private guardians, attorneys, court professionals, fiduciaries, case managers, program leaders, supported decision warriors, and others serving vulnerable adults, this book respects the importance of guardianship while refusing to romanticize the conditions under which guardians are often expected to perform it.This is not an anti-guardianship book. It is an anti-bad-guardianship, anti-professional-overreach, anti-"we've-always-done-it-this-way" book.Because guardianship matters too much to be practiced on autopilot-and a court order is authority, not emotional support.

• Reihe: Guardianship Isn't Your Emotional Support Court Order
• ISBN: 9798173472595
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published