Befriending : The American samaritans

著者

• Dickens, Monica

書誌事項

Befriending : The American samaritans

Monica Dickens; edited, with preface, introduction, and epilogue, by Calton Jackson.

Bowling green state university popular Press, c1996

• : pbk
• : clpthbound

注記

Index (p. 119-121)

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: clpthbound ISBN 9780879726997

内容説明

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."

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780879727000

内容説明

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB23264589
• ISBN:
  • 0879727004
  • 0879727004
  • 0879726997
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Ohio
• ページ数/冊数: xxvii, 121 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HV6548.U5D53