A Model of Trust Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review

Purpose of Review: Unstable relationships are a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Impairments in trust processes (i.e., appraisal and learning regarding others’ trustworthiness) can subserve interpersonal problems associated with BPD, but the determinants, mechanisms, consequences, and variations in trust impairments among individuals with BPD remain poorly characterized. Thus, a better understanding of such impairments could help target interventions that address the interpersonal problems of individuals with BPD beyond emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, and aggression. Recent Findings: We conducted a pre-registered systematic review of empirical studies on trust processes and BPD features (k = 29). Results are organized around a heuristic model of trust processes in BPD comprising the following stages: developmental factors, prior beliefs and dispositions, situation perception, emotional states, trust appraisal, behavioral manifestations, and trust learning. Summary: Based on the synthesis of the findings, we recommended directions for future research and clinical assessment and intervention, such as managing trust during the early stages of therapy and considering improvements in trust processes as a central mechanism of change in treating individuals with BPD

Towards a Gold Standard Operations Control Centre (OCC): Applying Creative Leadership principles in the re-design of an OCC at a leading international airline

Creative Leadership (CL) is a leadership model comprising the three values of Empathy, Clarity and Creativity, which are considered baseline operational and leadership attributes in a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) world. This paper presents a case study charting the application of CL principles within delivery of a complex research project involving international collaboration between The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA), a strategic partner – TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), and an airline client [the Airline]. The purpose of the design research was to improve the operational efficiency of the Airline, whilst improving staff and customer experience. This addressed three discrete, yet interlinked areas of delivery within the Airline Operations Control Centre (OCC), namely Technology, Environment and People. The three values of CL – Empathy, Clarity and Creativity – were exercised to align physical, technological and psychological factors. These were implemented in the design of a UX technology that made complex information accessible at a glance, and the re-design of the OCC office environment to enable better communication and personal wellbeing. This paper captures the process and outcomes, whilst reflecting on the efficacy of the CL model as a progressive framework for innovation, growth and development

Agroecology in action: engaging with stakeholders to move towards pesticide-free landscapes.

International audienceEffective farming management that strengthens the role of natural enemies in controlling pests can help achieve the critical objective of reducing the use of pesticides in modern agriculture. However, current efforts to achieve this goal tend to concentrate on modifying practices at the field level, overlooking the fact that pests and their natural enemies are also influenced by ecological patterns and processes that extend beyond individual fields and farms. Consequently, enhancing natural pest control will require addressing practices at the landscape scale as well. This situation calls for exploring with farmers how their own management decisions and those of their neighbours can affect pest control in individual fields across landscapes. Here, we present an operational framework that addresses this need and combines (i) long-term monitoring of natural pest control, landscape-scale farming practices and landscape configuration, (ii) identification with local stakeholders of potential changes in their practices they are willing to engage with and (iii) a spatially-explicit simulation tool predicting natural pest control in response to changes in farming practices at the field, farm and landscape levels. We then report on how this framework has been implemented in two contrasted landscapes of the French long-term monitoring network SEBIOPAG: one arable landscape near Dijon (Burgundy) and one mixed farming landscape near Toulouse (Occitanie). In both situations, we predict that the changes envisioned by farmers will boost natural pest control and that there is much more gain for individual farmers if all neighbouring farmers also engage in the transformation on their own farm. We then describe the stakeholders' perceptions of these outcomes and how they utilized these findings to identify essential actions they are willing to undertake collectively in their landscape

Agroecology in action: engaging with stakeholders to move towards pesticide-free landscapes.

International audienceEffective farming management that strengthens the role of natural enemies in controlling pests can help achieve the critical objective of reducing the use of pesticides in modern agriculture. However, current efforts to achieve this goal tend to concentrate on modifying practices at the field level, overlooking the fact that pests and their natural enemies are also influenced by ecological patterns and processes that extend beyond individual fields and farms. Consequently, enhancing natural pest control will require addressing practices at the landscape scale as well. This situation calls for exploring with farmers how their own management decisions and those of their neighbours can affect pest control in individual fields across landscapes. Here, we present an operational framework that addresses this need and combines (i) long-term monitoring of natural pest control, landscape-scale farming practices and landscape configuration, (ii) identification with local stakeholders of potential changes in their practices they are willing to engage with and (iii) a spatially-explicit simulation tool predicting natural pest control in response to changes in farming practices at the field, farm and landscape levels. We then report on how this framework has been implemented in two contrasted landscapes of the French long-term monitoring network SEBIOPAG: one arable landscape near Dijon (Burgundy) and one mixed farming landscape near Toulouse (Occitanie). In both situations, we predict that the changes envisioned by farmers will boost natural pest control and that there is much more gain for individual farmers if all neighbouring farmers also engage in the transformation on their own farm. We then describe the stakeholders' perceptions of these outcomes and how they utilized these findings to identify essential actions they are willing to undertake collectively in their landscape

Building capacities for the design of agroecological landscapes: The added-value of Landscape Monitoring Networks

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Exploring the potential of co-designed landscapes to promote biological pest control

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