How Can I Help - Softcover

Dass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071263438X ISBN 13: 9780712634380

Publisher: Rider & Co, 1994

Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener seņales normales de uso

About this title

From the Inside Flap

es by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And what really helps, anyway?"

In this practical helper's companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions, and provide support and inspiration fo us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings zoo animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a nun tends the wounded on the first night of the Nicaraguan revolution; a police officer talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; a nurse allows an infant to spend its last moments of life in her arms rather th

From the Back Cover

"A treasury of compassion, made all the more valuable by its many examples of how individuals can interact for the better with people and, indeed, the world around them." --Norman Cousins, author of Anantomy of an Illness

"How Can I Help? deserves a special place on that shelf reserved for truly practical wisdom." --Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"How Can I Help? is a gentle, tender, spiritual book." --Karl Menninger, M.D., F.A.P.A

Edition details

• Publisher: Rider & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071263438X
• ISBN 13: 9780712634380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248