People who experience disability for the first time undergo stress, cope with life transitions, value changes, and experience disability issues across their life spans.
People who experience disability for the first time also have to deal with the role of family, cross cultural issues and adjustments, the consequences of negative demeanours towards people with disabilities as a whole, and the roles of professionals who work to assist them with adjusting.
Their system of life and living has changed in many different ways, meaning they must endure a process of adjustment and self-evaluation.
The experience of an injury that leads to psychological or physical disability is similar to enduring a mourning process and might be equated to the loss of a loved one. This process can involve adjustments to the disability the person experiences and maybe divide it into a series of four stages or tasks.
