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Befriending: The American Samaritans
Contributor(s): Dickens, Monica (Author)

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 ISBN: 0879727004     ISBN-13: 9780879727000
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE: $15.15  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 1996
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Annotation: This book relates the founding in America, and evaluates the effectiveness of, a branch of the worldwide organization of volunteers known as the Samaritans, committed to the prevention of suicide through the simple means of "listening therapy." Great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Monica Dickens was best known in England as a novelist; in America, as the founder of the U.S. Samaritans. Today Samaritans are in every large city of the country. Volunteers work twenty-four hours a day, answering telephones or meeting troubled people, to try to give them, in nonjudgmental ways, the help they need to get their lives back in order.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling
- Social Science | Social Work
- Psychology | Suicide
Dewey: 362.287
LCCN: 96010815
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.04" W x 8.94" L (0.54 lbs) 152 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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