| Title:
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BEFRIENDING
THE AMERICAN SAMARITANS |
| By: |
Monica Dickens, Carlton Jackson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0879727004 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780879727000 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1996 |
| Pages: |
121 |
| Description: |
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." |
| Synopsis: |
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." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bowling Green University Popular Press,US |
| Returns: |
Returnable |