Practice Based Evidence Based Practice. Navigating based on coordinated improvisation, collaborative learning and multi‐methods research in Feedback Informed Systemic Therapy

In times when therapy is legitimized by transparency through control, standardization and benchmarking, the authors present a fluid manual of Feedback Informed Integrative Therapy within Systems (FITS) as a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice (PBEBP). The fluid manual FITS corresponds to the locality and complexity of social and cultural life and is substantiated by practice‐based research. The FITS therapist navigates her reflected responses on the basis of coordinated improvisation, organized feedback, collaborative learning and multi‐methods research. Accountability and transparency are offered through i) quantitative measurement of effects, developments and points of collaboration in therapy and ii) qualitative inquiry into navigational activities using improvisation and collaborative learning. FITS is a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice (PBEBP). The therapist is both practitioner and researcher and involves clients as co‐researchers. Therapist and clients examine the effects of their collaboration. The output of research is input for therapy in the ‘collaborative learning community’ constituted together. Practitioner points This article may inspire practitioners to manualize and research their own family therapy practice as a Practice Based Evidence Based Practice In FITS, a PBEBP therapist and family members constitute a ‘collaborative learning community’, learning together how they learn and evaluating their collaboration in therapy Practice Based Evidence Based Practice could be an alternative to standardized therapy models and manuals