The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) with Dr. Weathers

Frank Weathers, PhD, is a clinical research psychologist in the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD and Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He received his BA in psychology from Butler University in 1984 and his PhD in clinical psychology from Indiana University in 1990. After completing his internship at the Boston VA Medical Center, he worked at the National Center for PTSD until joining the psychology faculty at Auburn University in 1997. He retired from Auburn in 2021 after 24 years of teaching and mentoring in the doctoral program in clinical psychology. His research interests are in the phenomenology and assessment of PTSD, psychometric theory and analysis, and the classification of psychopathology. Much of his work has focused on the development and evaluation of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and the PTSD Checklist (PCL), two of the most widely used measures of PTSD. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on assessment of trauma and PTSD. He also has extensive experience as a CAPS trainer and psychometric consultant for a wide variety of trauma-related research projects, including VA Cooperative Studies, NIH grants, and pharmaceutical industry trials. Most recently, he led a substantial revision of the DSM-5 version of the CAPS, incorporating extensive feedback from raters over the last ten years.