Befriending: The American Samaritans

By Monica Dickens

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879727004
• ISBN13: 9780879727000
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"