Befriending: American Samaritans

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.

Author: Monica Dickens
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/15/1996
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780879727000