 Taking advantage of confidential information. As we know that when we interact with different people, which includes the clients as well, we have come across a lot of information. This information could be of many type and this could be of different kind of use as well. Fortunately, psychotherapists have an opportunity to gain personally as a result of information received in confidence. At times it happens that you have a client who belongs to a particular profession or maybe he is practicing a particular business or area and he has some specific information. Maybe he works in stocks, he has stock information or if he is from a medical profession, he has some sensitive information which is related exclusively to a medical profession or things like that. It is impossible to know how often psychotherapists may benefit in some ways from information they receive in course of work with their clients. Sometimes these clients may have some kind of information such as psychotherapists who have detailed history taking, communication of their problems, and they may be able to benefit them or get it in some personal use. For example, during the course of treatment, a therapist learned of a business event related to stock exchange in life of his client. Now a client from a stock exchange came to a therapist and he had some sensitive information like which is the right time to invest in which business and where there are chances of profit or loss. The information communicated during treatment was not a public knowledge. It was something secret which was related to that client's personal expertise and knowledge and it was not information for everyone. In fact, it was a part of a specialized individual's training or expertise. Therapists made some strategic investment decisions based on the information and earned a handsome amount as a result. Now that therapist met that client, what you can call is a trip. She took the benefit from that tip and invested in the business and made a lot of profit and benefit from it. Later on, the therapist was caught, prosecuted and fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading. Now here comes the ethical concern that if you take any professional information from your client, as a therapist, this is not recommended that you take it for your personal gains in some business or in some other way. Once caught, the therapist has been punished and persecuted for that and he was caught in the crime of insider trading. Sometimes the information obtained in the previously mentioned situations could be related to the general areas of life or personal skills and knowledge. We don't say that this is a crime or an ethical dilemma that you use that information or general knowledge to take some kind of benefit. The information obtained also not necessarily be related with the client's mental health or the services being provided by the therapist at a given period of time. This is not necessary that the information that you are getting from the client is exclusively coming to you because of his mental health illness and only comes at the same duration in which you have a connection with him. The use of such information basically does not constitute any kind of ethical misconduct because some things come into legal domains, some come into ethical domains and some of your journals are related to information. For example, a client who reports distressed about an unreliable automobile mechanic may lead the therapist to avoid using that business. For instance, if a client generally talks about an unreliable automobile mechanic, he says that the problem he had was only because of this gadget. So this information is something that if the therapist takes the benefit of listening to that experience, then this will not be an ethical constraint. However, the same sort of information is generally available to many people because apart from the client, there are many other people who are using gadgets to give their information. So it would not lead to a personal gain at the expense of others. But where there is exclusive and personal information, a personal gain is taken from it. Here that becomes a legal and ethical concern and a code of conduct is being violated and we consider that as an ethical concern. The therapist can be legally punished otherwise he can become a source of defame.