How to construct the perfect tenses in the passive voice?

When you can’t properly situate or correlate different actions or events as they happen in time, it’s symptomatic of an inadequate grasp of the perfect tenses in the passive voice.

This is evidently true in the case of Miss Mae, a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum, who had this predicament: “I can’t remember anymore when and where exactly I got this idea, but I still hesitate every time I add ‘been’ to ‘has,’ ‘have,’ and ‘had.’ Should writers really refrain from doing so?”