* School Violence Reduction: A model Jamaican Secondary School Program

The Montego Bay Secondary School Project presents an example of how violence reduction can be achieved using almost no physical resources, and the special effect called 'Bruno Effect', created by one Jamaican police officer with the consultation of a psychodynamically led training and intervention team. The 'Bruno Eeffect' resulted in a dramatic reduction in the number of physical attacks from an observed 5 fights per day (3 out of 5 involved knives and cutting) to 1 per week. The violence rate returned to its former level as soon as 'Bruno' left the school. Tthe dramtic violence reduction appears related to establishing an adult protective shield. The results stem from the unique personality of the adult protector as well as a combination of the special role of the police and the outside intervention team.