<p>Clinical social work preparation involves more than acquiring professional knowledge. Students must also develop a sense of professional belonging, confidence in emerging clinical capabilities, and a realistic intention to enter practice. This multicenter cross-sectional study examined associations among professional identity, clinical social work self-efficacy, career intention, and commitment among 438 undergraduate and postgraduate social work students across five academic sites in Saudi Arabia. Participants completed adapted measures of professional identity and clinical self-efficacy and study-developed measures of career intention and commitment. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor measurement model with excellent fit. In the structural model, professional identity was positively associated with clinical self-efficacy and career intention, and clinical self-efficacy was positively associated with career intention. Career intention showed the strongest direct association with commitment and carried the indirect associations of professional identity and clinical self-efficacy with commitment. Because the design was cross-sectional, these findings represent theoretically specified associations rather than causal or developmental sequencing. The results suggest that professional belonging and perceived clinical capability may be most closely connected to commitment when students also form a clear and personally meaningful intention to pursue clinical practice. Implications are considered for education, supervision, and workforce preparation.</p>