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If the cultural attitudes toward atypical physique are conflicting, viewing it on the one hand as a sign of inferiority, and on the other hand as neutral or even as an indication of virtue and goodness meriting special reverence, why is it that the person with a disability focuses on the personally more devastating side of the conflict? This chapter examines the main attitude or value changes that have positive adjustive effects in the acceptance of disability. Discussion focuses on the work of Dembo and co-workers (1956), who have made a careful beginning in tracing the process of what they have called "acceptance of loss." By loss is meant the absence of something valuable, felt as a personal misfortune. This chapter, then, is a development of their analysis of the changes within the value system of the person that are instrumental in overcoming the feeling of shame and inferiority resulting from disability as a value loss. These changes are designated as: (1) enlarging the scope of values, (2) containing disability effects, (3) subordinating physique, and (4) transforming comparative values into asset values. Further, although these value changes are interdependent in the sense that affecting one will affect another, for clarity, they are considered separately. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)