Professor of Social Work

Phone: 442-4763

Office: CLS 4065

E-mail: j-peller@neiu.edu

Born in New York City, Jane traveled to Chicago for graduate school in social work.
Jane has an M.A. from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, l974. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, has her A.C.S.W.,  and her L.C.S.W. After graduating Jane worked in a community-based youth agency with girls in a group home and with a DCFS contract to deinstitutionalize adolescents.  Jane then become the Clinical Director of a adolescent drug treatment program in Chicago for several years.  During that period of time, she received advance training in Gestalt therapy, brief therapy training and become a Clinical Supervisor for AAMFT. Jane has been at Northeastern Illinois University since 1980 part-time and then full time since 1985.  She has particular expertise and training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and specializes in family therapy. She has published numerous articles on the subject and two books.  The first book, Becoming Solution-Focused in Brief Therapy has been nationally and internationally received by the professional community having been published in three languages. Her second book, shown below, was published in spring of 2000. It is about how to think about doing counseling so that it is effective in the shortest period of time. 

Jane teaches Introduction to Social Work, the practice course, the human behavior in the social environment courses, social work with families and social work with groups.

This is Professor Peller's newly released book.