Brian E Perron
Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Perron’s research focuses on mental disorders and addiction, emphasizing services, clinical epidemiology, and measurement. In recent work he explores the effective use of administrative data to improve service delivery and other business processes in service organizations.
- Brian E Perron, Barbara S. Hiltz, Erin M. Khang, Sue Ann Savas. 2025. AI-Enhanced Social Work: Developing and Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Support Systems. Journal of Social Work Education
- Hui Luan, Brian E Perron, Yu Zhang. 2024. Co-authorship Networks in Left-Behind Children Research in China: A Social Network Analysis. Research on Social Work Practice
- Brian E Perron, Hui Luan, Bryan G. Victor, Oliver Hiltz-Perron, Joseph Ryan. 2024. Moving Beyond ChatGPT: Local Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Secure Analysis of Confidential Unstructured Text Data in Social Work Research. Research on Social Work Practice
- Maria Y. Rodriguez, Lauri Goldkind, Bryan G. Victor, Barbara Hiltz, Brian E Perron. 2024. Introducing Generative Artificial Intelligence Into the MSW Curriculum: A Proposal for the 2029 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Journal of Social Work Education 60(2):174-182.
- Bryan G. Victor, Lauri Goldkind, Brian E Perron. 2024. Forum: The Limitations of Large Language Models and Emerging Correctives to Support Social Work Scholarship: Selecting the Right Tool for the Task. International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics 21(1):200-207.
- Perron, Brian E, Krings, Amy , Victor, Bryan G, Mathias, John . 2019. Environmental social work in the disciplinary literature, 1991-2015. International Social Work :0020872818788397.
- Ryan, Joseph P, Perron, Brian E, Bushman, Gregory , Victor, Bryan G. 2019. In Utero Exposure to Opioids: An Observational Study of Mothers Involved in the Child Welfare System. Substance Use & Misuse
- Ryan, Joseph P, Perron, Brian E, Victor, Bryan G, Henry, Colleen , Gilbert, Terri Ticknor. 2019. Child Protective Service Referrals Involving Exposure to Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Associated Maltreatment Types, and Likelihood of Formal Case Openings. Child Maltreatment 24(3):299-309.
- Perron, Brian E, Ryan, Joseph P, Victor, Bryan G, Bushman, Gregory , Moore, Andrew , Lu, Alex Jiahong, Piellusch, Emily K. 2019. Detecting substance-related problems in narrative investigation summaries of child abuse and neglect using text mining and machine learning. Child Abuse & Neglect 98:104180.
- Perron, Brian E, Wang, Miao , Victor, Bryan G, Hong, Jun Sung, Wu, Shiyou , Huang, Jin , Luan, Hui . 2019. A Scoping Review of Interventions to Promote Health and Well-Being of Left-behind Children in Mainland China. The British Journal of Social Work