Abstract
Six children and their single parents participated in N =1 studies in which the Family Contract Game was the intervention. The children ranged in age from 8 to 15, and presented problems including enuresis and frequent home arguments. Parent-child problem-oriented discussion was videotaped and coded when discussion was unstructured (pretreatment and post-treatment baselines) and when discussion was structured by the game. The results confirmed that the game acted as a controlling stimulus for family discussion behavior each time a family used the game to solve a family problem and write a contingency contract. The first time the families played the game, on-task problem-solving behavior accelerated significantly ( t =11.08, p t =7.95, p t =3.91, p t =7.17, p
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