I am currently reading Mark Baker's new book and am really enjoying it. It is more of a coaching type book so far and have not come across anything pertaining to practicing.
For me, I go into my practice sessions with a goal in mind. I know in advance what I want to accomplish. I have my videocamera ready if I'm using it. But what I don't do is keep score. I work on my game for 1-1.5 hours and limit it to that. Anything beyond that and I run the risk of losing focus and gaining bad habits.
The goal is to work on the process of the approach and ball release, not the score. Once you are able to separate the two and only worry about the process, then better scores will come.