 Today, we are going to talk about that when the situation arises where the access of the patient's records is to be needed by the family, what should be the protocol we have to follow keeping in mind the ethical guidelines. This should be inevitably remain in the mind of the psychotherapist that at any point of the time they may arise a stage when the family would be asking for the evidences for the proofs and for the record of the treatment whatever would have been provided to the patient so far. Occasionally, a concerned family member will see access to exact the client's record. Therapists should recognize the unique problems that arise when working with minors or families and should remain sensitive to each individual's right to privacy and confidentiality in such circumstances. You never know that for what reason the questions is being arise that they have to see the records that whatever you have been giving in the psychotherapy. Specifically, in those situations, when a minor's case is presented to you and in that minor's case, there are such sensitive issues in which they keep on doing their tasks, keep on telling their childhood problems, keep on explaining their child-parent interaction, in which there can be some sensitive information or when it is being asked by the family, it should be carefully needed to see what information they should give or not. In certain cases, this directly comes into the right to the confidentiality and that information cannot be given to family members. But in certain cases, which we will be going to see in the future, where we have to extend that information. From the outset of any such relationship, all parties should receive information about the specific nature of confidential relationship. Now, there could be many stakeholders which may be involved in certain, you know, scenarios. We feel that there is a case where a parent's child's parents have an issue of separation. And that child is learning psychotherapy because he is wasting a lot of stress, he is unable to cope with it. And with that psychotherapist, the issues of his parents and the problems of his family dynamics are shared. And he is unable to openly tell who he wants to stay with from his parents. And since he is going through a psychotherapeutic treatment, the court may ask that the child's psychotherapist should be taken to the records and be asked from there that in the past, the child shared more of his inclinations or problems. In such situations, more than one of the stakeholders may be involved. A discussion about what sort of information might be shared and with whom should be raised early. So keeping in mind all possible scenarios would could be occur later in the psychotherapeutic treatment. It is very advisable that at the beginning, when we set an informed concern or protocol between the parties, we should also jot down the points where information will be given. Let's say that we can only tell symptoms, we can tell major inclination, we will also share the verbatims because this is something very sensitive to be shared and it should be very sensitive to be treated. When the client is a child or deemed legally incompetent, parents or guardians generally have full legal entitlement to record access. But this is also something which should be write down in a very beginning that if a child is very young and can't give any concern or is legally incompetent, then the guardian of the child is a full, complete caretaker. The right to information can be shared with him or not. It is very important to decide these things on an early stage. Ensuring strong previously protection is critical to maintain individual's trust in their therapist and willingness to obtain needed healthcare services which are being provided. So, you know, if we can't maintain this, which stage of your confidentiality can reach, then it will be very difficult for a client and therapist to maintain a healthy relationship. Otherwise, a client will continue ZFTA that in any situation, all my verbatims, all my talks, all my secrets can be exposed to the general public, family, court or law. This should be done in a very sensitive manner. There are a few rules for the healthcare providers to share the protective information of a client. So, they are very simple and easy and I will just quickly go through all of them one by one. Communicate with the patient's family member or friends or others involved in the patient care. So, you know, we have to provide the information about these general rules to all these members. Communicate with family members when the patient is an adult. So, they should know that they may not be able to get any information because the patient himself is an adult person. Communicate with the parent of a patient who is a minor. So, they may have probably better rights than the adult one. Consider the patient's capacity to agree or object the sharing of their information. Like, for any point where they understand that there is no need to tell anything, they can raise that point. Involve a patient's family member, friends or others in dealing with patients' failure to adhere to medication or other therapy. But in those sensitive conditions, where you feel that his medical adherence is not good or his compliance is not good with the therapy, we can take those close ones in the loop so that we can provide better treatment for him. Listen to family members about their loved ones receiving mental health treatment. So, this is also very important and communicate with family members law enforcement or others when the patient presents a serious or imminent threat to harm for himself or to others. But in therapy, if there is a sensitive bar disclosed in which you can see signs of suicide or homicide, it is very important to tell others about it. Moving further, I will be giving you different examples to the cases to elaborate this scenario further.