Skip to this page's content

Adjunct Faculty

Phillipe Copeland, M.T.S., M.S.W., LICSW

Phillipe Copeland received his Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1999. Shortly after graduating, he began his career in behavioral health providing community-based, relapse prevention services to homeless adults with substance use disorders and mental illness, and residential treatment of adults with mental illness.

In 2001, Mr. Copeland returned to graduate education to pursue an M.S.W. from Simmons School of Social Work which included participation in the Urban Leadership Program. Since graduating in 2003, has worked at the South End Community Health Center, the Multicultural AIDS Coalition and the Boston Public Health Commission and served as a Field Instructor for Boston University School of Social Work. He is currently the Associate Director of Community-Based Crisis Stabilization for South Shore Mental Health and an adjunct faculty member at Boston University teaching Implications of Racism for Social Work Practice.

Mr. Copeland is currently a doctoral candidate at Simmons School of Social Work. His dissertation is a quantitative study of the use of spirituality or religion to cope with work related-stress among social workers who provide direct services to individuals, couples, families or groups and its implications for burnout.

2011-2012 Courses:
SW 401 Social Policy and Services

Adjunct Faculty