 Since we were talking about the access to records to the adults, in those scenarios where the client is a child, we have to see that what particular lagoonas and technicalities may be involved in accessing the record of a child. Now confidentiality is also a very important point for children when we are talking about their access to record. Therapeutic confidentiality is a key to effective treatment for numerous reasons, including building and preserving a strong therapeutic alliance. And in case of child, it becomes even more critical as compared to the child, to the adult because the children are more sensitive. And they may at times speaks very naively, very inexperienced about certain situations and through the whole conversation, there may be very few points which would be technically important and the therapist has to pick them very wisely. Because a child in different emotional scenarios is talking a lot about it. It is related to the activities on its day to day basis. And all of its verbatims, as such, do not convey that meaning, that if we do not technically and professionally understand it and jot down it. If we do not jot down all its emotions without any context, then maybe the access to record will become very critical at some point. So, professional competency is very important in this. And talking to a child, taking its technical points is another important thing. And this can also become a big hazard in certain situations when we give access to confidentiality. The benefits of confidentiality, however, includes increasing cooperation in treatment. A child has little reason to disclose information. Like, this is very easy to understand. An information that he does not share with his parents, he does not share with his friends, he does not share with his close circle, that information does not easily share with the therapist. So, it is very, very important that a strong rapport is established with them. With them, their cooperation is increased more and then it comes to a stage where a child talks about his personal, his heart, his main problematic area, then it will be agreed upon by the therapist. Often information they do not want to disclose is the information that is the most important for them to discuss in the therapy. And generally, they just do not want to talk about it, which is a key indicator of their treatment. Unless we reach to the right point, the treatment cannot begin. In such a scenario, to explore it to the right point, the rapport building and your cooperation is a very important role. Now, ensuring a child gets effective treatment. So, the second thing is that, that not only giving the treatment to the children, but the treatment should also be the effective one. If due to the concerns related to confidentiality, a child cannot safely disclose whatever they want, the therapist may not have enough information to know what kind of the hell the child is in need. Let's say parents bring a child, and they tell him that he is not eating, he is not drinking, his gold timing is bad, and he may have symptoms of depression, because this is something most common which everyone knows. Now, the purpose of the therapist is not to explore him for depression, rather than his assessment of his information, his history-taking, and his knowledge. Because maybe that case is of something else. It has been in observation that those cases would generally comfort depression and anxiety at times may end up in having a borderline personality or a gender identity disorder. So, you know, the symptoms may be overlapping, and it needs to be explored very well. So, reaching out there is professionally very important, and it is even more important to keep that confidentiality secure. Protecting a child from risk of abuse or homelessness. Not all parents have unconditional love for their child. Generally, in a protective scenario, we think that every child gets a lot of love and affection from their parents, but unfortunately, this is not the fact. For example, some parents may abuse or disown their own child because of their sexual orientation or behaviour, and if this information is disclosed, it could make a client vulnerable to be unkind and abusive between them. Let me share with you that the transgenders in our culture have a very minimal acceptance of general families. Here, the children who are their own children, but because they are transgenders or their sexual orientations are different, they are mostly not accepted by parents, and they avoid being a part of their family like other children. In these situations, either the children are victims of homelessness or if they stay at home with them, they are often abused or misused. Because they don't get proper education and other facilities for their lives. So, in those situations, if they, at any stage, got the access to come for the therapy, which is very, very rare in Pakistani scenarios, but still if they got the access to reach at that situation, it's very important to protect their personal feelings and their information. Now, protecting the child from third parties. Confidential information can be used for a wide range of purposes. For example, bullying, marketing, even stealing a person's identity. So, it's not a simple thing that your confidential material is going to just ruin you emotionally. It may have the social impact. It may have the physical impact. It may have impact to a very large spectrum. So, even when a minor has no right to confidentiality from a parent, they still have a right to previously from third parties. If a small child has information, his parents can access it, but it's not necessary that their information is given to everyone. Give it to a third-party stakeholder, to the public, or to share it in a general discussion. So, even in case being a minor, its privacy is still sustained. Improving the parent-child relationship. Some parents may worry that the secrets which the child holds which they are going to share in therapy will undermine their relationship with their child. But when a child can openly discuss their feelings in therapy, their relationship with others including the parents may improve. This has been seen in a general observation that parents don't bring their children to therapy because they should know their children's secrets rather than sharing it with their therapist. But if they take them to a therapist in any situation, and the therapist is dealing with them, then eventually there is an outcome possible that the parent-child relationship improves. So, it's not only a one-sided effect, but it has an effect in various ways which need to be understanding in a very clear scenario. So, to access the child's record, all these points and dynamics contribute to a very important role.