 With reference to the record keeping, another important aspect which needs to be talked about is retention of records. The psychologists strive to be aware of the applicable laws and regulation and to retain the records for the period required by the legal, regulatory, institutional and ethical requirements. So, it's not just marrying the preparation of a record, putting up and setting up all these prescriptions and details together in just a file, but we need to take care of certain protocols. It's not just that we keep punching every document we get in a file, rather than we have to see that whenever this record is being used for any ethical purpose, for any legal purpose, for any other regulatory purpose, then the documents that we are inserting in the file are being fulfilled. By saying that, it means that the documents that we are inserting, they should be proper, they should be with the date diary, all the details in it should be written in the appropriate manner, regularly. It shouldn't be that when we access those records, for a particular reason, then after reading them, we should not be able to understand what is going on in these records, what is dealing with the client on the date, rather than we make it a hodgepodge document, it should be a systematic, well-organised and logically sound method, it is very important to put it in the file. Then, it is beneficial for the psychologist to retain information concerning the specific nature, quality and rationale of services provider. Now, it is necessary to keep all aspects in mind. If you want to produce a legal document, then some things are specially made for them. Where we only have to look at something from an ethical point of view, where we have the date, the client's initials, they have not given the full name, their complete address should not be mentioned on every document, it should be saved in just one place in the system, it should be coded, it should have a fake address, all these things have not been produced in such a way that as soon as someone knows which client it is, then it is very important to do proper labelling and coding when we maintain files in one system. The retention of the record is also good for society's interest in a fair and effective legal dispute, resolution and administration of justice, when those records are sued to eliminate some legal issues. Now, air times are such that in some legal proceedings it is proved that a couple has a marital discord and one of them has some mental health issues. Now, if this can be traced from a record that what is the nature of his mental health issues, how manipulative he is, how much he is trustworthy, how trustworthy he is, or if he is involved in any good or bad situation, then what is his past record, he can get a very good help through documents and he can provide legal support to the court to maintain the problems between these two individuals, how the marital discord will be settled. So, for such scenarios, when a legal document is helped in the records, if it is not well maintained, then the court cannot give any benefit to the law or the court. Referring back towards the Noor Mukaddim case, which I talked about earlier in the very beginning of this course because this is something which has been happened in a recent time, and we have to see that there was one psychological services involved and we are seeing a very important role of that in this case. If the records are retained properly, then those records will be very helpful for the court to prove that what is the mental state of the alleged person. But if there would be no such records, then this would be very difficult to prove that a certain person has been going through some mental illness. So, in cases like Noor Mukaddim and many others, I am referring back because that could trace you back towards all the literature which we have done so far, that how we can give protection to a family and how we can safeguard a family and how we can develop a better justice in that scenario, as I have mentioned in this lecture. Then preserving context of records. Psychologists should strive to be attentive to situational context in which records are created. This is very important that what would be the context of that particular situation. Sometimes we just record a thing, but the contextual parameters are not being given there. Let's say, if I ask the general opinion from people that what is the experience of traveling in a train or what are their opinions or opinions. So, maybe people will give me a mixed kind of opinion about traveling in a train. But if I ask them this question in the morning, the day when there was a blast in the train or an accident, and then I ask them that how do you have an opinion about traveling in a train? Might be, at that time my question is, will this context produce a different scenario or a different answer? So, similarly when we produce records, the reactions of the client and the verbatims that we are writing in this context are very important. And because these contexts may influence the content of those records, of course they influence the content of our records. It protects the clients from misuse or misinterpretation of those data in the way that could create prejudice or harm towards the client. If an individual expresses anger for some genuine reason, and a verbatim is quoted, that's a different thing. But if that anger or rage is showing a general towards community, its context will be different. And that need to be recorded in a very ample way so that when we reproduce it, it can provide a good meaning. Information in a client record is specific to a given temporal or a situational context. For example, the timeframe in a situation in which the services were provided and the record was created. For example, in the situation of COVID, if we tell someone that you are wearing a mask, or what is your opinion towards the mask, and they say that they will not follow this rule, that would be a different context. When the world was corona free, and in that situation, if you ask someone the same question and the answer could be anything, the context would be a different context. So context or situation, that is something very important while keeping and tracking the records. When the context changes over the time, the relevance and the meaning of the information may also change. Of course, when that situation or scenario changes, the importance of that content will also change due to that context. Preserving the context of the record protects the client from the misuse or misinterpretation of those data in a way that could prejudice or harm the client. This is very important to understand. The very purpose of doing this activity is to protect the safeguard client as well as the therapist. Because if we don't do this, any of the data could be produced at any of the time without having any label, any context and it could be easily pre-judged.