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Dr. Vilia Tarvydas, PhD, LMHC, CRC
Vilia Tarvydas, PhD, LMHC, CRC
, is professor emeritus and former chair of the Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Department at the University of Iowa. She was the founding director
of the In...ver másVilia Tarvydas, PhD, LMHC, CRC
, is professor emeritus and former chair of the Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Department at the University of Iowa. She was the founding director
of the Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Ethics (I-DARE), and continues her active scholarship with I-DARE. Dr. Tarvydas previously served as the
president of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education, the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association, and the American Association of State
Counseling Boards (AASCB). In the latter capacity, she was a member of the ACA/AASCB 20/20 Initiative Oversight Committee and developed the Delphi
methodology that has guided that process in its last several years.
Dr. Tarvydas has extensive experience in ethics governance and leadership and has chaired the Iowa Board of Behavioral Science and its Disciplinary
Committee, as well as the ACA and CRCC ethics committees. She also chaired the CRCC Code Revision Task Force that wrote the 2010 CRCC Code of Professional Ethics, and was a member of the ACA Code Revision Task Force that wrote the 2005 ACA Code of Ethics. Currently, she is a
member of the ACA Ethics Appeals Committee. For the last 6 years, she has produced and provided an annual ethics webinar continuing education series that
was jointly produced by I-DARE and CRCC, and is series editor for ethics for CRCC’s new continuing education online learning initiative. She was the senior
coeditor of a special 2010 joint edition of the new code for three professional journals in rehabilitation counseling: Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, and The Rehabilitation Professional. Dr. Tarvydas
has published and presented extensively on ethics, ethical decision making, and professional governance and standards. Her most recent textbooks are Counseling Ethics and Decision Making and The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling.ver menos