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The collapse of the Buffalo Creek dam and subsequent flood disaster has received a great deal of attention in the literature since its occurrence in 1972. Previous reports of that disaster covered its legal (Stern, 1976), sociological (Erikson, 1976), and psychological (Gleser, Green, & Winget, 1981; Titchener & Kapp, 1976) aspects.
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Grace, M.C., Green, B.L., Lindy, J.D., Leonard, A.C. (1993). The Buffalo Creek Disaster. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_36
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