The Gaslighting Victims' Questionnaire (GVQ) and GVQ- Short form

By M. D. Tophus

The Gaslighting Victims' Questionnaire (GVQ), and the Gaslighting Victims' Questionnaire- Short form
(GVQ- Short form), integrates areas of gaslighting abuse identification: exploitation of trust; manipulation
and control; creation of doubt in the victim; isolation; hostage taking like symptoms; interrogation; brainwashing;
threats and fear-mongering; splitting; labelling; luring; debasement; toxicity; abandonment issues; and so forth.
Symptoms of gaslighting impact include coverage of: hopelessness; (learned) helplessness; anxiety;
depression; mental and physical exhaustion; moral injury; intrusive cognitions; trauma, and more.
Guidelines and recommendations are incorporated, for both scales, to assist the assessor.
The GVQ, and the GVQ-Short form, is based on M.D. Tophus' 5 Gaslighting Victims' Stages.
These are:
GHFSA: Grooming; Hostage to cruelty; Fragmentation; revelationary Shock; and, Aftermath.
The M. D. Tophus publication 'Gaslighting' provides clear explanation of each stage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CFCTTZZ9
• ISBN13: 9798857584132
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"