There is no established beginning point, and usually no end. They can try to tackle all the problems at once, or they can take them one at a time. They can deal with misunderstandings first, and then procedural difficulties, or they can go the other way around. They can start down one path, and switch to another path as the need develops. Constructive confrontation is very flexible and adaptable to the problem at hand.
Constructive confrontation is also cyclical.
After treatments are undertaken, results are monitored, and strategies adjusted if the treatments did not work. It is expected that the underlying conflict will continue, so in order to keep that conflict productive, parties must continue to monitor the changes in core issues and the development of complicating problems over time. This is a longer paper on the theoretical underpinnings of constructive confrontation. The material above was drawn from this paper, so there is some overlap, but there is more information in this essay than is given above. This is a short essay which the situation in Northern Ireland in 1989, when the parties were just beginning to realize that there would not be a military solution to this problem.