There are two types of abdominal paracentesis, diagnostic and therapeutic. A diagnostic paracentesis is done to examine the fluid in the abdomen. Determining the type of fluid present will help determine the cause of the problem.
There are many things that could contribute to a parent's abusive behavior, including the parent's abuse as a child, mental health issues, substance use, poor coping skills, stress levels and limited support system, says Dr. Dominguez. But it's important to remember that the cause doesn't excuse the behavior.
This belief is based on the theory that children learn abusive parenting practices from observing their parents and experiencing abuse during the process of growing up. Learned patterns of abusive parenting are transmitted from parent to child and are replicated by the child when he or she becomes a parent. Steele and Pollock (1968) and Martin (1976) observed the perpetuation theory of child abuse and neglect at work in their clinical cases.