The Common Approach
Most behavior change comes from identifying the triggers and protective need behind the behavior, then replacing the coping response with a less painful option by using a protective-strategy lens. Using that lens leads the client to a functional change in behavior based on symptoms that are in the way of the outcome.
From the worldview’s context, this misses the mark because you are not helping your clients to understand the benefits of their current worldview, and to fully embodied and integrate their behaviors, which empowers them to make sense as to why they are willing to pay a cost for their value-system. Instead, you are essentially trying to get them to change their behavior by highlighting the deep pains and limitations of their current worldview, then trying to shift them into a worldview that doesn’t have those pains and limitations.
What gets lost
The reason this is damaging is that you’re deconstructing their current worldview (behaviors included) in favor of a worldview that only makes sense to them because their current worldview is too unbearable. It works when the unbearableness of their painful experiences make them ripe for change.
Pain can be a powerful catalyst for change, so it works because the suffering outweighs the priority value-system, but the collateral damage it creates outweighs the gains, since they never made sense of what was actually driving them, who they were, why it mattered, how it lived through them. Nobody advocated for their inner-lived experience, and what was real and true for them.
Nobody highlighted the value-system driving their behavior from its origin, which is meaningful, without evaluation. Instead, they were taken through a process of being judged and assessed against preconceived social standards to determine whether they and their experiences and behavior had value, quality, effectiveness, or results.