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School of Social Work Research Publications for Brian E. Perron

  1. Ryan, J., P., Oshman, L., Frank, C., Perron, B., Victor, B., & Sankaran, V. (2025). Prenatal cannabis exposure and the risk of subsequent maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 160.
  2. Perron, B. E., Hiltz, B. S., Khang, E. M., & Savas, S. A. (2025). AI-enhanced social work: Developing and evaluating specialized tools with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Journal of Social Work Education.
  3. Forrester, M. B., Qi, Z., Perron, B. E., & Rehman, N. S. (2024). Pediatric cannabis exposures treated at United States hospital emergency departments. Texas Public Health Journal, 6(1), 27-31.
  4. Perron, B. E., Luan, H., Qi, Z., Victor, B. G., & Goyal, K. (2024). Demystifying application programming interfaces (APIs): Unlocking the power of large language models and other web-based AI services in social work research. ArXiv.
  5. Perron, B. E., Rivenburgh, K. A., Victor, B. G., Qi, Z., & Luan, H. (2024). A primer on word embeddings: AI techniques for text analysis in social work.
  6. Luan, H., Perron, B. E., Victor, B. G., Wan, G., Niu, Y., & Xiao, X. (2024). Using artificial intelligence to support scientometric analysis of scholarly literature: A case example of research on mainland China's left-behind children. Journal of Society for Social Work and Research.
  7. Perron, B. E., Luan, H., Victor, B. G., Hiltz-Perron, O., & Ryan, J. (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.
  8. Park, K., Victor, B. G., Perron, B. E., Ryan, J. P., & Braun, B. (2024). Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020). Journal of Public Child Welfare, 18(1), 1-20.
  9. Victor, B. G., Kubiak, S., Angell, B., & Perron, B. E. (2023). Time to move beyond the ASWB Licensing Exams: Can generative artificial intelligence offer a way forward for social work? Research on Social Work Practice, 33(5), 511-517.
  10. Victor, B. G., McNally, K., Qi, Z., & Perron, B. E. (2023). Construct-irrelevant variance on the ASWB Clinical Social Work Licensing Exam: A replication of prior validity concerns. Research on Social Work Practice, 34(2), 217-222.
  11. Sokol, R. L., Victor, B. G., Yoon, M., Ryan, J., & Perron, B. (2023). Complex, co-occurring needs patterns and evidence-based service planning for families involved in foster care: A map for research and practice. Child Maltreatment, 28(2), 359-371.
  12. Victor, B., Sokol, R., Goldkind, L., & Perron, B. (2023). Recommendations for social work researchers and journal editors on the use of generative AI and large language models. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 14(3), 563-577.
  13. Perron, B., Victor, B., Ryan, J., Piellusch, E., & Sokol, R. (2022). A text-based approach to measuring opioid-related risk among families involved in the child welfare system. Child Abuse and Neglect.
  14. Sokol, R., Victor, B., Yoon, M., Ryan, J., & Perron, B. (2022). Complex, co-occurring needs patterns and evidence-based service planning for families involved in foster care: A map for research and practice. Child Maltreatment.
  15. Wu, S., Wang, M., Perron, B. E., Huang, J., Li, J., Zhou, X., Zhu,Y., He, X., Wen, J., & Ma, F. (2022). Development of research on social work practice in mainland China: Context, challenges, and opportunities. International Social Work, 65(6), 1130-1144.
  16. Sokol, R., Victor, B., Mariscal, S., Ryan, J., & Perron, B. (2021). Using administrative data to uncover how often and why supervisory neglect happens: Implications for child maltreatment prevention. Child Abuse and Neglect, 122,
  17. Victor, B., Perron, B., Sokol, R., Fedina, L., & Ryan, J. (2021). Automated identification of domestic violence in written child welfare records: Leveraging text mining and machine learning to enhance social work research and evaluation. Journal of Society of Social Work Research, 12(4), 631-655.
  18. Sokol, R., Perron, B., Rosenblum, K., Muzik, M., Zimmerman, M., & Miller, A. (2020). Developmental differences in the association of peer relationships with traumatic stress symptoms. Preventive Medicine, 21, 841-849.
  19. Luan, H., Wang, M., Sokol, R., Wu, S., Victor, B., & Perron, B. (2020). A scoping review of WeChat to facilitate professional healthcare education in mainland China. Medical Education Online, 25(1).
  20. Sokol, R., Li, J., Victor, B., Miller, A., Ryan, J., & Perron, B. (2020). Changes in Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) scores over time: A systematic review. Child Youth Services Review, 112, 104917.
  21. Wang, M., Sokol, R., Perron, B., Victor, B., & Wu, S. (2020). Mental health service interventions for left-behind children in mainland China: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Child Youth Services Review, 117, 105304.
  22. Sokol, R., Victor, B., Piellusch, E., Nielsen, S., Ryan, J., & Perron, B. (2020). Prevalence and context of firearms-related problems in child protective service investigations. Child Abuse and Neglect, 107, 104572.
  23. Perron, B., Haroney, J., Hayes, D., Sokol, R., & Kolton, S. (2020). Potentially serious unintended consequences for the use of 1,1-difluoroethane as a deterrent for the intentional inhalation of computer duster sprays. Forensic Toxicology, 39, 286-290.
  24. Wang, M., Victor, B. G., Hong, J. S., Wu, S., Huang, J., Luan, H., & Perron, B. E. (2020). A scoping review of interventions to promote health and well-being of left-behind children in mainland China. The British Journal of Social Work, 50(5), 1419-1439.
  25. Krings, A., Victor, B. G., Mathias, J., & Perron, B. E. (2020). Environmental social work in the disciplinary literature, 1991-2015. International Social Work, 63, 275-290.

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