In psychology, an ethical dilemma occurs when a counselor, therapist, or a researcher, has to make a decision with two or more conflicting moral principles which makes it unclear to choose which decision to make. In a situation like this, adhering to one ethical principle means breaching another ethical principle and this creates an imbalance. An example of this could be a therapist facing a dilemma when a client tells a therapist something the client believes could be harmful to others. The therapist has to choose between the two conflicting ideas of trust where one has to keep their promise to maintain privacy and where the idea of privacy is compromised and others are kept safe. Ethics dilemmas revolve around a few core ideas and this could also be termed as spine of ethical dilemmas around which the whole situation revolves. Informed consent, dual relationships, and ethical dilemmas in research are the primary bones which other dilemmas are built around.