Interactive patterns detection in family communication with adolescents.

I studied this text last week and I found it really interesting. It´s about an investigation with observational methodology that talks about the communication between parents and adolescents.
The communication is a relevant indicator for family functionality valuation.
The achievement of this investigation is to analyze the communication in order to identify specific kinds of leadership, interaction patterns and the relation between verbal and nonverbal elements in communication.
According to the family models that been analyzed for the authors, the results of the investigation show a predominantly democratic communication style in adults with recurrent support expressions for they children.
Verbal and nonverbal give us complementary information. Depending on adolescents’ gender different patterns in behaviour can be identified as well.
With the observational methodology we can study lots of differents behaviours, not only in adolescents, also in children or even in sports, for example the behaviour of an all soccer team to improve the game.
This type of investigation is a great advance for the social sciences because it allows to study the behaviors of persons in their particularity or in group.