Sharon L Ramey
Biographic Data
| ID | 217426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon L Ramey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMEY S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-7019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Health-related declines in activity level
Objectives Failing health is theorized as a key driver of declines in religious participation in late older adulthood. Few studies, however, have directly examined whether deteriorating health plays a role in these declines. Furthermore, health is multifaceted, yet little research has distinguished multiple aspects of health that are important for these declines in religious participation. Notably, no known research has been conducted in the Hisp…
Parental Preconception Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Maternal Prenatal Inflammation Prospectively Predict Shorter Telomere Length in Children
OBJECTIVE: Parental trauma exposure and trauma-related distress can increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in offspring, but the pathways implicated in intergenerational transmission are not fully explicated. Accelerated biological aging may be one mechanism underlying less favorable health in trauma-exposed individuals and their offspring. This study examines the associations of preconception maternal and paternal posttraumatic stress diso…
Developmental cascades from maternal preconception stress to child behavior problems
Although maternal stress during pregnancy and even before conception shapes offspring risk for mental health problems, relatively little is known about the mechanisms through which these associations operate. In theory, preconception and prenatal stress may affect offspring mental health by influencing child responses to postnatal caregiving. To address this knowledge gap, this study had two aims. First, we examined associations between preconcep…
Lifetime discrimination in low to middle income mothers and cellular aging
Effective mentoring of underrepresented doctoral trainees and early career scholars in the biobehavioral and health sciences
Effective mentoring of underrepresented scholars in the biobehavioral and health sciences is vital for the future of scientific inquiry, as well as for clinical and public health applications. Through the mentoring process, both the mentee and mentor can benefit by broadening their knowledge, skills, and perspectives relative to the professional goals and interests of the mentee. Establishing a trusting and nurturing relationship allows the mento…
Explaining racial and ethnic inequalities in postpartum allostatic load
Racial and ethnic inequalities in AL were accounted for largely by household poverty with additional contributions by psychological, economic, neighbourhood and medical variables. There remained a significant inequality between African American, and Latina women as compared to Whites even after adjustment for this set of variables. Future research into health inequalities among women should include a fuller consideration of the social determinant…
The Preconception Stress and Resiliency Pathways Model
My Baby & Me”
This study examined the efficacy of a multimodule parenting intervention, "My Baby & Me," that began prenatally and continued until children reached 2.5 years of age. The intervention targeted specific parenting skills designed to alter trajectories of maternal and child development. Of 361 high-risk mothers (193 adolescents, 168 adults) enrolled across 4 states, half were randomly assigned to the high-intensity (HI) home visitation coaching prog…
Assessing differential effects
Developmental scientists frequently seek to understand effects of environmental contexts on development. Traditional analytic strategies assume similar environmental effects for all children, sometimes exploring possible moderating influences or exceptions (e.g., outliers) as a secondary step. These strategies are poorly matched to ecological models of human development that posit complex individual by environment interactions. An alternative con…
Child health and academic achievement among former head start children
An educational intervention improves developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage
From 1991 to 1994, a group of Romanian and American colleagues undertook an experimental and humanitarian effort to try to improve the quality of life, mental health, and developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage. In the context of institutional care, we experimentally introduced stable adult-child relationships, small group size, and a protocol of enriched caregiving and educational activities. These procedures were adapte…
Early Learning and School Readiness
Children’s experiences prior to kindergarten entry are correlated with degree of cognitive development and school readiness as measured by standardized assessments of cognitive and linguistic performance. Children from economically poor and undereducated families are at elevated risk for lack of school readiness due to less knowledge and skill. This article reviews evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that were designed to test the h…
A new measure for assessing developmentally appropriate practices in early elementary school, A Developmentally Appropriate Practice Template
The Effects of Developmentally Appropriate Practices on Academic Outcomes Among Former Head Start Students and Classmates, Grades 1–3
The educational ideology of Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) in childhood education is influential, despite remarkably little empirical study. This article relates DAP to changes in achievement and receptive language among former Head Start children and classmates in Grades 1–3 (including between 1,564 and 4,764 children in 869 to 1,537 classrooms). The authors applied multilevel growth curve modeling techniques to estimate overall DAP…
Modeling Intraindividual Changes in Children's Social Skills at Home and at School
Multivariate latent growth modeling was used to conceptualize and analyze intraindividual changes in children's social skills and interindividual differences in these changes in home and school settings. Parent and teacher ratings assessing children's social skills at home and school settings, respectively, were obtained for a sample of 378 children at 4 time points spaced at approximately 12-month intervals over a 4-year period from Kindergarten…
Persistent Effects of Early Childhood Education on High-Risk Children and Their Mothers
Child and mother outcomes are reported for the Abecedarian Project, an early child-hood education, pediatric healthcare, and family support program for high-risk chil-dren and their mothers. Three randomized intervention conditions for at-risk partici-pants were compared to a control condition. Randomized control group participants received family support social services, low-cost or free pediatric care, and child nu-tritional supplements but no …
Head Start and preschool education
Head Start and preschool education
In defense of special education
In defense of special education
The Relationship between Social Support and Life Satisfaction as a Function of Family Structure
The present study focuses on the discriminant validity of 4 types of social support and the utility of distinguishing support provision from different referents. Hypotheses about the influence of family structure on the relationship between social support and life satisfaction were formally evaluated. The respondents were 512 parents, including 176 married mothers, 172 married fathers, and 164 single mothers. Results corroborate the importance of…
Early child care experiences and their association with family and child characteristics during middle childhood
Home Visiting Programs and the Health and Development of Young Children
This article presents a conceptual framework for thinking about the health and development of young children. The discussion of theory is followed by a description of how home visiting, as a process, can be used to improve the health and development of young children within their many domains of functioning. The authors refer to the Olds and Kitzman review of empirical studies in thisjournal issue and conclude that home visiting programs which ad…
The science of prevention
Dialogues with children about their families
Developmentally sensitive child dialogues reveal that children's own self-appraisals are linked to their perceptions of their parents' strengths and weaknesses and to the support they report receiving from significant others in their lives
The science of prevention
My Baby & Me”
This study examined the efficacy of a multimodule parenting intervention, "My Baby & Me," that began prenatally and continued until children reached 2.5 years of age. The intervention targeted specific parenting skills designed to alter trajectories of maternal and child development. Of 361 high-risk mothers (193 adolescents, 168 adults) enrolled across 4 states, half were randomly assigned to the high-intensity (HI) home visitation coaching prog…
The Relationship between Social Support and Life Satisfaction as a Function of Family Structure
The present study focuses on the discriminant validity of 4 types of social support and the utility of distinguishing support provision from different referents. Hypotheses about the influence of family structure on the relationship between social support and life satisfaction were formally evaluated. The respondents were 512 parents, including 176 married mothers, 172 married fathers, and 164 single mothers. Results corroborate the importance of…
An educational intervention improves developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage
From 1991 to 1994, a group of Romanian and American colleagues undertook an experimental and humanitarian effort to try to improve the quality of life, mental health, and developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage. In the context of institutional care, we experimentally introduced stable adult-child relationships, small group size, and a protocol of enriched caregiving and educational activities. These procedures were adapte…
Early child care experiences and their association with family and child characteristics during middle childhood
Home Visiting Programs and the Health and Development of Young Children
This article presents a conceptual framework for thinking about the health and development of young children. The discussion of theory is followed by a description of how home visiting, as a process, can be used to improve the health and development of young children within their many domains of functioning. The authors refer to the Olds and Kitzman review of empirical studies in thisjournal issue and conclude that home visiting programs which ad…
Assessing differential effects
Developmental scientists frequently seek to understand effects of environmental contexts on development. Traditional analytic strategies assume similar environmental effects for all children, sometimes exploring possible moderating influences or exceptions (e.g., outliers) as a secondary step. These strategies are poorly matched to ecological models of human development that posit complex individual by environment interactions. An alternative con…
Child health and academic achievement among former head start children
The Effects of Developmentally Appropriate Practices on Academic Outcomes Among Former Head Start Students and Classmates, Grades 1–3
The educational ideology of Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) in childhood education is influential, despite remarkably little empirical study. This article relates DAP to changes in achievement and receptive language among former Head Start children and classmates in Grades 1–3 (including between 1,564 and 4,764 children in 869 to 1,537 classrooms). The authors applied multilevel growth curve modeling techniques to estimate overall DAP…
Dialogues with children about their families
Developmentally sensitive child dialogues reveal that children's own self-appraisals are linked to their perceptions of their parents' strengths and weaknesses and to the support they report receiving from significant others in their lives
Home Visiting Programs and the Health and Development of Young Children
This article presents a conceptual framework for thinking about the health and development of young children. The discussion of theory is followed by a description of how home visiting, as a process, can be used to improve the health and development of young children within their many domains of functioning. The authors refer to the Olds and Kitzman review of empirical studies in thisjournal issue and conclude that home visiting programs which ad…
The science of prevention
Early child care experiences and their association with family and child characteristics during middle childhood
The Relationship between Social Support and Life Satisfaction as a Function of Family Structure
The present study focuses on the discriminant validity of 4 types of social support and the utility of distinguishing support provision from different referents. Hypotheses about the influence of family structure on the relationship between social support and life satisfaction were formally evaluated. The respondents were 512 parents, including 176 married mothers, 172 married fathers, and 164 single mothers. Results corroborate the importance of…
In defense of special education
In defense of special education
Head Start and preschool education
Head Start and preschool education
Modeling Intraindividual Changes in Children's Social Skills at Home and at School
Multivariate latent growth modeling was used to conceptualize and analyze intraindividual changes in children's social skills and interindividual differences in these changes in home and school settings. Parent and teacher ratings assessing children's social skills at home and school settings, respectively, were obtained for a sample of 378 children at 4 time points spaced at approximately 12-month intervals over a 4-year period from Kindergarten…
Persistent Effects of Early Childhood Education on High-Risk Children and Their Mothers
Child and mother outcomes are reported for the Abecedarian Project, an early child-hood education, pediatric healthcare, and family support program for high-risk chil-dren and their mothers. Three randomized intervention conditions for at-risk partici-pants were compared to a control condition. Randomized control group participants received family support social services, low-cost or free pediatric care, and child nu-tritional supplements but no …
The Effects of Developmentally Appropriate Practices on Academic Outcomes Among Former Head Start Students and Classmates, Grades 1–3
The educational ideology of Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) in childhood education is influential, despite remarkably little empirical study. This article relates DAP to changes in achievement and receptive language among former Head Start children and classmates in Grades 1–3 (including between 1,564 and 4,764 children in 869 to 1,537 classrooms). The authors applied multilevel growth curve modeling techniques to estimate overall DAP…
Early Learning and School Readiness
Children’s experiences prior to kindergarten entry are correlated with degree of cognitive development and school readiness as measured by standardized assessments of cognitive and linguistic performance. Children from economically poor and undereducated families are at elevated risk for lack of school readiness due to less knowledge and skill. This article reviews evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that were designed to test the h…
A new measure for assessing developmentally appropriate practices in early elementary school, A Developmentally Appropriate Practice Template
An educational intervention improves developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage
From 1991 to 1994, a group of Romanian and American colleagues undertook an experimental and humanitarian effort to try to improve the quality of life, mental health, and developmental progress of young children in a Romanian orphanage. In the context of institutional care, we experimentally introduced stable adult-child relationships, small group size, and a protocol of enriched caregiving and educational activities. These procedures were adapte…
Child health and academic achievement among former head start children
Assessing differential effects
Developmental scientists frequently seek to understand effects of environmental contexts on development. Traditional analytic strategies assume similar environmental effects for all children, sometimes exploring possible moderating influences or exceptions (e.g., outliers) as a secondary step. These strategies are poorly matched to ecological models of human development that posit complex individual by environment interactions. An alternative con…
The Preconception Stress and Resiliency Pathways Model
My Baby & Me”
This study examined the efficacy of a multimodule parenting intervention, "My Baby & Me," that began prenatally and continued until children reached 2.5 years of age. The intervention targeted specific parenting skills designed to alter trajectories of maternal and child development. Of 361 high-risk mothers (193 adolescents, 168 adults) enrolled across 4 states, half were randomly assigned to the high-intensity (HI) home visitation coaching prog…
Explaining racial and ethnic inequalities in postpartum allostatic load
Racial and ethnic inequalities in AL were accounted for largely by household poverty with additional contributions by psychological, economic, neighbourhood and medical variables. There remained a significant inequality between African American, and Latina women as compared to Whites even after adjustment for this set of variables. Future research into health inequalities among women should include a fuller consideration of the social determinant…
Effective mentoring of underrepresented doctoral trainees and early career scholars in the biobehavioral and health sciences
Effective mentoring of underrepresented scholars in the biobehavioral and health sciences is vital for the future of scientific inquiry, as well as for clinical and public health applications. Through the mentoring process, both the mentee and mentor can benefit by broadening their knowledge, skills, and perspectives relative to the professional goals and interests of the mentee. Establishing a trusting and nurturing relationship allows the mento…
Lifetime discrimination in low to middle income mothers and cellular aging
Parental Preconception Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Maternal Prenatal Inflammation Prospectively Predict Shorter Telomere Length in Children
OBJECTIVE: Parental trauma exposure and trauma-related distress can increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in offspring, but the pathways implicated in intergenerational transmission are not fully explicated. Accelerated biological aging may be one mechanism underlying less favorable health in trauma-exposed individuals and their offspring. This study examines the associations of preconception maternal and paternal posttraumatic stress diso…
Developmental cascades from maternal preconception stress to child behavior problems
Although maternal stress during pregnancy and even before conception shapes offspring risk for mental health problems, relatively little is known about the mechanisms through which these associations operate. In theory, preconception and prenatal stress may affect offspring mental health by influencing child responses to postnatal caregiving. To address this knowledge gap, this study had two aims. First, we examined associations between preconcep…
Health-related declines in activity level
Objectives Failing health is theorized as a key driver of declines in religious participation in late older adulthood. Few studies, however, have directly examined whether deteriorating health plays a role in these declines. Furthermore, health is multifaceted, yet little research has distinguished multiple aspects of health that are important for these declines in religious participation. Notably, no known research has been conducted in the Hisp…
Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Child development (7 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)