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- as featured in the book: ‘Gaslighting’ (by M. D. Tophus).

These are: GHFSA: Grooming; Hostage to cruelty; Fragmentation; revelationary Shock; and, Aftermath.

ISBN: 9798857584132

Link:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=m.+d.+tophus&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss