Table 1.

Overview of barriers to mental health care for African American men

Intrapersonal factors	Socio-cultural factors	Systemic factors
Lack of trust of health and mental health care systems	Negative judgments shared by family and friends	Limited understanding of how to navigate through complex mental health care systems
Fears relating to stigma, personal shame about their problems	Lack of appropriate vocabulary to discuss sensitive health issues	Lack of culturally-centered and gender-specific clinical environments, prevention programs, and treatment approaches
The inability to “handle it” on their own
Lack of appropriate vocabulary to discuss sensitive health issues