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Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by moyta on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:06AM (#12920430)
Definitely, even if you hate them you have to work with the rest of your patrol and make your situation as good as possible, whether that be by stringing up tarps, building tripods to hang your stuff on, making an axe yard, or caring for Mike who is having yet another asthma attack/seizure/hypothermia/etc.

I was lucky enough to be in a large, non-religous troop that happened to have a bus & be very well organized (4 Junior Assistant Scoutmasters!), definitely a great experience, only wish I had gotten further than life.

Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by gonzo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:05AM (#12921550)
As a former SM, the goals (Aims) of Scouting do not include getting young men to the rank of Eagle.

The aims of Scouting are: Character development Citizenship training Physical fitness

The methods used to achieve these aims:

http://www.nesa.org/methods.html

Learning to live with others is one of the things achieved via the patrol method. This tends to develop citizenship.

Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by Angostura on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:32AM (#12921841)
Bear in mind that this was a study of those participating in U.K. Scouting which is different in many respects to the American organisation
Re:Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’ by timthorn on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:21PM (#12922248)
And UK Scouting was very different 40 years ago to how it is today - relevant as this study looks at outcomes for those born in 1958