These findings have important implications for preventative interventions aimed at preventing the onset of stress-related psychiatric morbidity in youths. Current interventions aimed at reducing peer victimization among adolescents consist largely of school-based prevention programs that attempt to change beliefs about aggressive behaviors (Olweus 1994; DeRosier 2004; DeRosier and Marcus 2005). Although such programs are effective, even the most successful interventions do not have perfect success rates. The development of interventions to address the negative sequelae of adolescent stress exposure, including aggressive behavior, is therefore an important priority. Current treatments for aggression consist mainly of cognitive-behavioral techniques (Kazdin, et al. 1992; Tate, et al. 1995). Our results suggest that the inclusion of techniques to enhance emotion regulation might improve the efficacy of existing interventions. Existing intervention techniques that target emotion regulation in the treatment of internalizing disorders (Suveg, et al. 2006; 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
