From “What Works” to “Why it Works” – From a Humean to an Aristotelian Understanding of Causality

Purpose: Authors of this theoretical article are questioning Hume's view on causality by arguing for Aristotle’s pluralistic as an alternative strategy social work research and practice. Methods: Aristotle's notion is applied to discuss its relevance, then tested a real case, thereby illustrating how it can contribute explain why something works. Results: Different types causes reveal characteristics that preconditional professional's service user's mutual roles in enhancing outcomes. They further the architecture intervention; underlying processes actions reach desired goal. Discussion: To deliver knowledge relevance work, one needs results intervention through causal analysis well understanding content it. forms make possible take contextual historicism phenomenon into consideration give beyond effects.