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Research and Treatment Models Addressing Trauma in Couples

The impact of trauma and traumatic stress on our daily lives has often come too close to home. Today, we live in a post-9/11 world where the news all too frequently turns to the turbulence of the day, in a far off region and even in our own backyard. As clinicians, we are faced with witnessing the atrocities that plague our clients’ minds, invade their dreams, and darken their souls. Often within our work with survivors of traumatic experiences, we find the most fulfillment and growth, for even in the midst of adversity, the human spirit proves resilient. This special issue, “Research and Treatment Models Addressing Trauma in Couples,” brings together several perspectives from the fields of marriage and family therapy, clinical psychology, social work, and related areas, to provide both clinical and empirical frameworks that help further our understanding of the systemic effects of trauma on the couple relationship. This special issue provides a glimpse into the current state of the field of trauma in couples. The articles bring together collaborations in the current field focused on military and war-related traumas. This is not surprising given our world today. The article by Oseland, Gallus, and Nelson Goff (2016) provides an updated version of a framework, the Couples Adaptation to Traumatic Stress (CATS) model, originally published byNelsonGoff and Smith (2005). Since the original model was published, several studies have been conducted on trauma in couples, with the newmodel providing more detailed information on the dyadic processes that occur for the couple when trauma is present. This theoretical model is provided as a framework to use both clinically and in research and may be applied to a variety of trauma experiences. In addition, two of the articles provide perspectives from international scholars (Dekel, Nuttman-Shwartz, & Lavi, 2016; Murray & Wilson, 2016). Wilson and Murray (2016) provide a meta-synthesis of 11 qualitative studies on the impact of deployment for partners of military personnel. This is a unique research approach, whichwe anticipate will emerge in other areas of study. Dekel and colleagues offer an