A Student Asks Her Professor Whether the American Psychological Association

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