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Befriending: The American Samaritans

Befriending: The American Samaritans

Paperback

Death & DyingGeneral PsychologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0879727004
ISBN13: 9780879727000
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Jun 15 1996
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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.

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