title: A positive complement.
abstract: This brief editorial article introduces the special series, Positive Body Image: Avenues for Assessment, Application, and Advancement. This special series serves as "a positive complement" to help round out the body image literature, which has been heavily slanted towards understanding, measuring, preventing, and treating negative body image. More precisely, this special series offers a guide for conceptualizing, assessing, and promoting positive body image; highlights expressions of positive body image among various social groups; and articulates numerous directions for future research. This editorial describes the need for this special series and its development, and provides a synopsis of the six articles of the series, written by world-renowned positive body image theorists, researchers, clinicians, and change agents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus and Marion Campuses, Columbus, OH, United States. Electronic address: tylka.2@osu.edu.
authors.forename: Tracy L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Tylka
authors.affiliation: The Center for Balanced Living, Columbus, OH, United States.
authors.forename: Nichole L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Wood-Barcalow
mesh_terms: D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010549:Personal Satisfaction
keywords: Editorial; Positive body image; Special series