This article was written by Gabi Goldberg. A grade 10 pupil who loves writing and thinking outside the box...

Do you want to help people out? Or find out why we behave the way we do? If so, a career in psychology would be just the thing for you!

Generally therapists have long been associated with loony, old people trying to help you sort out your problems, and not many other aspects about psychology is known.

Psychologists study anything from concepts like people’s perception, emotions, personalities, to our behavioural patterns.

It’s a wide ranging field of study; you can get very far with it as well as having the opportunity to have a career in professions such as human development, sports, health, media, and law.

So if you are interested in anything from forensics to counseling, give psychology a try!

• Wikipedia has loads of great information on psychology
• This site has really fun exciting facts and quizzes about psychology
• Unisa provides interesting and informative info about psychology and the career fields you can go into with a degree in psychology.