Excerpt
Imagine yourself being a visible minority student in a foreign country. In addition to coping with academic demands and acculturation stress, you find yourself having to deal with a clinical supervisor “from hell”. You can’t find a better word to describe this supervisor, because she really creates hell in your life, with her racist attitudes, devastatingly unfair criticisms, and threats to expel you. Already sensitized to discrimination and fearful of the clinical supervision situation, now you are confronted with the worst nightmare of your life. Your academic career and professional future are all of a sudden collapsing before your very eyes. What do you do to save the day? How do you cope with your emotional trauma and your desperate situation? …
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Wong, L. C. J. (2006). How visible minority students cope with supervision stress. In P. T. P Wong, & L. C. J. Wong (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping(pp. 361-386). New York, NY: Springer.