Dr. Warren is a European American psychotherapist who has moved her practice to a region of the country in which there are many Latin American clients. From an ethical perspective, she has a moral responsibility to ____.
a. alter the social and cultural views of her Latin American clients so that they are more in harmony with the general American culture
b. develop intervention strategies that take into account the cultural and environmental influences of her Latin American clients
c. offer treatment only to European American clients
d. provide the same style of treatment to Latin American clients as she does to others
Question 2
A student asks her professor whether the American Psychological Association (APA) has ever taken a stand on the ethics of being culturally competent. The professor responds that the APA ____.
a. refused to include such guidelines in its association codes
b. wrote such guidelines into its original charter more than one hundred years ago
c. has recently developed sets of guidelines for dealing with ethnic, linguistic, and culturally diverse populations, and for psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients
d. has planned to include such guidelines in its code of conduct but due to controversy has never actually done so