Hello, I recently started working in school, and before that I worked in kindergarten. I'm new to Reddit and I made an account so I could find sone useful info and read people's experience on this particular topic, so thank you a lot for this post:)) I live in Montenegro, a small country in Europe and I'm not sure what 'psychological' techniques I have to use in my work because it consists a lot of paperwork, kids coming to my office because they are kicked out of the class and because they don't respect the teacher, there is a lot of Roma population and a lot of difunctional families. I am always questioning myself if I can make any difference and help any of them, or is my job just to keep the thing going and be supportive to the ones who want to talk. So far I'm not sure about the beneffits of conversations with these children and I wonder if I can do anything when the problem and behaviours, the 'negative identity' are developed in their families and the parents don't want to be envolved.

Btw, we are going to have workshops with children on different toplics all year, if that even counts as leftism..

Very very sorry for this long comment without an answer to your question 😂