Trosper, et al. 2009) may have similar ameliorative effects on aggressive behavior. For example, Kovacs et al. (2006) developed an intervention targeting distress and negative mood that specifically enhances self-regulation in adolescents by identifying typical responses to distress and replacing maladaptive responses with positive responses taken from among the child’s existing repertoire of emotion regulation skills. Such intervention techniques could be usefully applied in prevention programs targeting adolescents exposed to peer victimization and other chronic stressors. Because these techniques target emotion regulation skills directly, they have the potential to prevent the onset of both internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.
