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Podcast: Womanity - Women in Unity
Episode: Prof Tarina Gusa – Head of Psychology Department – University of Pretoria: Hope has power
Description: This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Tharina Guse, who heads up the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria and is a counselling psychologist.
Professor Gusa shares some of her motivations for becoming a psychologist from initial plans to pursue journalism, which stemmed from her interest in people, their experiences and stories. Studying psychology was a natural fit to really understand people through human behaviour, human thoughts and human feelings.
Her research and teaching focusses on positive psychology and well-being. Positive psychology distinguishing itself from traditional psychology by...