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The book provides a working model for social workers tintegrate the most up-to-date evidence about challenges of living encountered in their daily practice Using a multidimensional biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective, the book examines etiology, course and intervention strategies related t8 challenges of living The book presents a range of theories of causation and brings together the most recent interdisciplinary research on risk and protective factors in each chapter Each chapter is organized according tthe features of the working model and includes: narrative story (or stories) theories of causation patterns of occurrence across gender, raceethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disability biological risk and protective factors psychological risk and protective factors social risk and protective factors spiritual risk and protective factors integration of biopsychosocial-spiritual dimensions ways that people attempt tcope social justice issues implications for social work policy and practice