The author discusses how the Johnson and Gottman approaches are compatible and how they can be wed into a more comprehensive model of couple therapy. This discussion is divided into two parts. The first part covers the amalgamation of these two approaches and shows how they can be restructured into an integrated couple therapy (ICT) model. The second part shows how the different practices and methods of these two approaches can be systematically incorporated into five stages of treatment in the ICT model.
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