TY - BOOK AU - AU - Arvin Jeremy n. Tan, Andrew O. Jardeleza,Florian Antoinette P. Sta. Maria. ED - ED - ED - Philippine Journal of Psychology. 48 (2) : December 2015. pp. 51-80 ED - SN - 2 PY - 0000///46 CY - PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Vicarious Trauma;Transcendental Phenomenology KW - Domestic Migrants;Natural Disasters KW - Typhoon Yolanda KW - sears;sears0 N1 - ABSTRACT : Using transcendental phenomenology, we examined the experience of vicarious trauma in the context of natural disasters. We specifically looked at the narratives of domestics migrants whose family members were typhoon Haiyan survivors. Findings show that the survivors families experienced painful and intrusive psychological distress. The gravity of the pain and loss experienced by the participants was relative to the amount of pain loss or damage sustained by the subject of their attachment. Vicarious trauma was experienced as a void -filling phenomenon and the concurrent traumatic experience improved as the participants made sense of the significance of the event in their lives. Our findings may help in dveloping interventions to address the effects of vicarious trauma on families of disaster victims and survivors; 5 ER -