This article describes ‘Feedback‐informed Therapy within Systems (FITS) as Practice Based Evidence Based Practice (PBEBP)’. In FITS as PBEBP practice and research effectively intertwine. The therapist is both practitioner and researcher and involves clients as co‐researchers. The output of research is input for therapy in the ‘collaborative learning community’ constituted together. Participants co‐research patterns of communication within layers of context and examine the effects of their collaboration. I will illustrate this process of systemic practice‐based research in a seven‐step research design, referring to three (anonymised) systemic therapy cases. Therapist and clients produce ‘validity from within’ when they develop explanations of experiences in stories which are accepted as coherent and generative within a community of concern.
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Family therapists are encouraged to research their practice and involve family members as co‐researchers in order to explore their ongoing collaboration in learning how to learn
In FITS as Practice Based Evidence Based Practice research and practice are intertwined
Small spontaneous differences can make a difference that matters, and be the tipping point in the process of transformation
Practice Based Evidence Based Practice could be used as an alternative to the introduction of evidence‐based protocols