Prior suicidal behavior, depression, and externalizing psychopathology (e.g., impulsive aggression, alcohol and drug use disorders, conduct problems) confer risk for SA and suicide during adolescence (Brent, Johnson, Perper et al., 1994; Fergusson, Woodward, & Horwood, 2000; Gould, King, Greenwald et al., 1998; Shaffer, Gould, Fisher et al., 1996). It has been argued that models of suicidal behavior during youth must account for the potential transmission of such risk factors from parents to offspring (Brent & Mann, 2006). In support of this argument, parents with histories of suicidal behavior have children that are at increased risk for SA (Kim, Seguin, Therrien et al., 2005; Lieb, Bronisch, Hofler et al., 2005; Melhem, Brent, Ziegler et al., 2007) and parents displaying key risk factors for suicidal behavior including depressive disorders and various forms of externalizing psychopathology have children that are at increased risk for these difficulties (Brent, Oquendo, Birmaher et al., 2002; Harold, Rice, Hay et al., 2010; Kim, Seguin, Therrien et al., 2005; van Goozen, Fairchild, Snoek et al., 2007). Integrating such data, Brent and Mann (2006) proposed that parental psychopathology including
